Re: CONFIG_REISERFS_RAW (http://www.namesys.com/config.html)

[Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>]

Perhaps also worth mentioning...Reiser4 has a plug-in interface that 
would make this sort of work easier.  You'd still need to do significant 
work in Squid, but it is also easier in new Squids.  (The devel Squid 3 
branch is becoming C++, and has a more clean and modular storage 
interface than even current Squids.)

Joe Cooper wrote:
> You don't want to use it...
> 
> But if you do:
> 
> http://swelltech.com/pengies/joe/squidng.html
> 
> This page has the last versions of both the Squid and ReiserFS that have 
> this feature.  It hasn't been supported in over two years, and it wasn't 
> a trivial set of patches even then...I doubt you'd have much hope of 
> getting either working in recent versions of Squid or kernel without 
> significant help from both projects (probably paid help--this is deep 
> code, and a lot of work to integrate).  It was a pretty darned fast 
> Squid, though.
> 
> Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> can anyone tell me where I can find this code:
>>
>>
>> CONFIG_REISERFS_RAW
>>     Setting this to yes will enable a set of ioctls that provide raw
>>     interface to the ReiserFS tree, bypass the directories, and
>>     automatically remove aged files. This is an experimental feature
>>     designed for squid cache directories. See 
>> Documentation/filesystems/reiserfs_raw.txt
>>     This was designed specifically to use ReiserFS as a back-end for
>>     the Squid. The general idea is that it is possible to bypass all
>>     filesystem overhead and to directly address the ReiserFS internal
>>     tree. This is not in the stock kernels.
>> ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> ciao, Marc
> 
> 
> 


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