Red Hat is enabling the "--enable-truncate" option in their Squid packages. Is the use of this option advisable in my circumstances? I'm running Squid 2.5S12 on RHEL4. My single cache is on a ReiserFS (v3.6) filesystem, mounted with the noatime and notail options, on a very low latency SCSI drive. Red Hat has always been, ahem, unenthusiastic about ReiserFS so it is not a consideration in their planning/testing. Can someone with experience in these circumstances advise me on the performance impact of using "--enable-truncate" (versus outright file deletion) on this cache configuration? Thanks.
