* On 07/09/06 21:54 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: | 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. Where does this discussion put other OSes other than Linux? For example, we don't use ext3/reiserfs/xfs on FreeBSD. When the discussion goes the direction of the OS, I sometimes do feel that we need to split the list for sanity purposes: squid-users-linux, squid-users-bsd, etc.. because some of obvious reasons. That way limux-centric discussions can go on a separate list, while *bsd-centric ones can go to the other.. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ One reason why George Washington Is held in such veneration: He never blamed his problems On the former Administration. -- George O. Ludcke
