Re: [squid-users] question about filesystems and directories for cache.

reiserfs 4 is much better than ext3 ...

On Nov 24, 2007 9:55 PM, Tony Dodd <tony@last.fm> wrote:
> Matias Lopez Bergero wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > I'm being reading the wiki and the mailing list to know, which is the
> > best filesystem to use, for now I have chose ext3 based on comments on
> > the list, also, I have passed the nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime flags to
> > fstab in order to get a security and faster performance.
> >
> <snip>
>
> Hi Matias,
>
> I'd personally recommend against ext3, and point you towards reiserfs.
> ext3 is horribly slow for many small files being read/written at the
> same time. I'd also recommend maximizing your disk throughput, by
> splitting the raid, and having a cache-dir on each disk; though of
> course, you'll loose redundancy in the event of a disk failure.
>
> I wrote a howto that revolves around maximizing squid performance, take
> a look at it, you may find it helpful:
> http://blog.last.fm/2007/08/30/squid-optimization-guide
>
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