On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Part of the work I did quite a while ago was to try and allow people to > store very large objects on another spool. I guessed that the large objects > were accessed less frequently and so could happily be stored in a UNIX > filesystem. The file open rate for a "normal" UNIX filesystem is what, 50 ish > requests a second for a single-spindle disk filesystem? Maybe slightly higher > if all your directory entries are cached? > > Research has mostly shown that to be true; ie the overhead of UNIX filesystems > becomes less of a concern after the object size grows past a couple hundred > kilobytes. I'd quote the references but I don't have them handy - I'll make > sure they appear in the document library once the new Squid website is released. > > So as long as you're able to store small objects seperately from large objects > and make sure one doesn't starve IO from the other then you'll be able to both > enjoy your cake and eat it too. :P That would be a great feature to have, to be able to put larger objects in a separate space. Thanks. :) -- Manoj Rajkarnikar Systems Department Vianet Communications Pvt Ltd Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal. (PH)977-1-5546410
