On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Kinkie <gkinkie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Rafael Gomes <linux.rafa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> With ReiserFS or xfs we must set this options too? >> >> options : noatime, nodiratime, data=writeback > > data=writeback is ext3-specific, the others should be available and if > so they are to be specified for maximum performance. > in case of reiserfs you should also specify notail. > There's some hints at http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid I would not run an ext3 filesystem with data=writeback . noatime and nodiratime provide a welcome boost by eliminating unneeded writes, however writeback is not {powerfailure, system crash}-safe. If you value your time (especially the time spent putting systems back up after a system failure), you should use data=ordered. Francois
