On Thursday 07 September 2006 21:22, Dan Thomson wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I'm curious about what > people think are the "best" file systems to use for your cache dirs. > > I've read that ReiserFS and XFS are good choices... is there an > optimal request rate/request size to take into account? Any other hard > drive tweaking that have yielded favourable results? I'm using ext3 and happy with it so far. :) All I remember is that ReiserFS was a bad choice for the cache_dir in terms of performance. Journalling made things slow. XFS was among the best. I hope I remember it correctly. A fast hard disk and avoiding redundancy on RAIDs like RAID-1 will probably help. I'd like to extend the question though: does anyone have experience how much slower the cache becomes when using Linux' LVM? Time and again I start to become unhappy with my partitioning scheme. Christoph
