From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Cooper Subject: Re: CONFIG_REISERFS_RAW (http://www.namesys.com/config.html) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:20:00 -0600 Message-ID: <3E527950.8070005@swelltech.com> References: <200302161452.21451.m.c.p@gmx.net> <3E5278C3.7030608@swelltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3E5278C3.7030608@swelltech.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.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 > > > -- Joe Cooper Web caching appliances and support. http://www.swelltech.com