I've been playing around with an idea about using reiserfs on a Cache
appliance. Seeing how reiserfs is so much faster with lots of small
files I though it would make a great filesystem for use with Squid.
I would be interesting to use the same machine with ext2 vs reiser
on a squid bakeoff. Before I spend time testing my theory has
anyone else already done this? Want to display the results? BSD
systems always kick linux but in the backoff's using squid. I think
part of the reason is because of the filesystem. What do you all
think?
-Jason
Civileme wrote:
>
> Magnus Holmberg wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to install Mandrake 7.1 on a / partition with reiserfs.
> > Or do i need to have /boot on ext2 filesystem?
>
> I did all partitions except windows, swap, and /boot on reiser. I did
> /boot on ext2 because checking it is trivial and I had no notion whether
> the kernel in memory when /boot is read had the reiser fs patch or not.
> I suppose the Open BIOS project with linux as the BIOS could feature
> Reiser if someone wanted to be a puritan, and use nothing else. I did
> not in fact try /boot as Reiserfs on my test system, so I can't say
> whether it will work.
>
> But with an ext2 /boot, Reiser can definitely be used for all the other
> partitions. It is not backwards compatible with ext2 since the storage
> method is something like a B-Tree, but ext2 and reiser partitions can
> coexist. Checking out several partitions totalling 10 Gb of storage
> (UDMA/33 without optimizations) in less than nine seconds on boot after
> being stopped in the midst of 40 users with makes in progress (by a
> hardware reset) is pretty good, in my estimation. Now I am creating and
> reading, resizing and writing back , many many tiny files to see if I can
> confuse it long term. So far, its efficiency with bundles of small files
> seems to be superior to ext2fs.
>
> Civileme
>
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