RE: [squid-users] mount options for cache_dir

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Ilker GOKHAN wrote:

> As far as I remember there was a benchmarking test which was done by Duane.
> According to this report, ext2 with async (aufs) is one the best choice.

Sounds reasonable. ext2 is a farily light filesystem unless you need
syncronous operations (which Squid doesn't use) or very large directories
(which Squid also doesn't use)

However, smarter filesystems may be able to acheive a better write speed
for the amount of small files used by Squid.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri May 27 2005 - 02:36:53 MDT