Re: [squid-users] XFS on RedHat EL4?

From: Shawn Wright <swright@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:21:00 -0700

On 7 Sep 2006 at 14:41, Shawn Wright wrote:

> Is anyone successfully running the XFS filesystem on Redhat
> EL4?
>
> We have always run squid on XFS on earlier RedHat &
> Mandrake releases, but are trying to deploy a new RedHat EL4
> box and having some issues. It seems RedHat goes out of
> their way to remove XFS support, so we compiled a custom
> kernel to get it back. In the process we are finding that
> Dell/Broadcom NIC drivers fail to load correctly at boot. (Dell
> PE2950 server)

Ok, so I got a few answers on this one, and will be tackling Dell on their
apparently malfunctioning driver.
 
> Sorry if this isn't really squid related, but I was hoping someone
> here had experience with Redhat EL4 and XFS. I'm assuming
> that XFS is still considered a superior choice for squid,
> compared with EXT3?

But how about the above? Is EXT3 still considered inferior to XFS for squid
cache volumes?

Thanks

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Shawn Wright, I.T. Manager
Shawnigan Lake School
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Received on Tue Sep 12 2006 - 12:22:54 MDT

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