-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mark, On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:35:03 +1000 Mark Nottingham <mnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FreeBSD and aufs was discussed a while back, IIRC, and the upshot was > that for FreeBSD 6, it's useful (threads on 4 is a no-no). The > lingering doubt in my mind was this bug: <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ > query-pr.cgi?pr=103127>, which appears to have been patched in 6.1- > RELEASE-p5. > > So, in a nutshell, can it be safely said that aufs is stable and > reasonably performant on FreeBSD >= 6.2, as long as the described > thread configuration is performed? > So in a nutshell, you are saying that AUFS is quite stable in FreeBSD-6.2? As Henrik mentioned, I will only need the following compilation options for using AUFS for squid: '--enable-storeio=ufs,coss,diskd,aufs,null' I don't need any extra compilations to use AUFS besides the above? I also don't need to apply the patches regarding the "Kernel Panic" bug mentioned above in FreeBSD-6.2 right? Is that correct? Thanking you... > Cheers, > > > On 2007/08/11, at 7:36 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > > On lör, 2007-08-11 at 15:10 +0545, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: > > > >> As far as I know and seen with my limited experience, diskd seems > >> good > >> for BSD boxes. But I guess I have to try other alternatives too. > >> > >> If I opt to use aufs, will the following compilations work? > >> > >> '--enable-async-io' '--with-pthreads' > > > > --enable-storeio=aufs > > > > pthreads is automatically enabled, so no need to specify that. Won't > > hurt if you do however. > > > > If you are on FreeBSD then remember to configure FreeBSD to use kernel > > threads for Squid or it won't work well. See another user response in > > this thread. > > > > On Linux and Solaris you do not need to care about this as the default > > posix threads implementations there supports kernel threads out of the > > box. > > > >> --enable-async-io=40 > > > > There is no --enable-async-io option any more. This was very long > > ago.. > > Still understood as an alias for --enable-storeio=aufs and a few other > > configure options however (see --help) > > > > You generally do not need to specify the amount of I/O threads. The > > default selected by Squid based on your squid.conf is quite > > reasonable. > > > > Regards > > Henrik > > -- > Mark Nottingham mnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > - -- With best regards and good wishes, Yours sincerely, Tek Bahadur Limbu (TAG/TDG Group) Jwl Systems Department Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd. Jawalakhel, Nepal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGwWupfpE0pz+xqQQRAnugAKCWlpOy4i5OVLAII/jcPUbq85M6swCgjng6 paAp8WxxxnbQdIXISD5v7fQ= =3d1/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
