From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: CONFIG_REISERFS_RAW (http://www.namesys.com/config.html) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:33:54 +0300 Message-ID: <3E527C92.6070409@namesys.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: Joe Cooper Cc: Marc-Christian Petersen , reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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 > > > The sponsor for the work did the usual dotcom number.... We would be happy to do more work if there was a sponsor.... -- Hans