Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

Hans Reiser
2001-05-10T14:42:48Z

Matthias Andree wrote:

>
> If you're deploying a cache partition such as /var/squid (possibly
> having log files in another /var/log partition on another disk drive),
> what's the point about not running (e. g.) mke2fs and squid -z on boot,
> as well as mounting the system partitions (/usr) read-only (prevents
> fsck on next reboot)? mke2fs is faster than reiserfs recovery probably
> ;-)

For that particular application of squid, it happens we are much much faster
than ext2, if you apply all the right tunings and especially if you apply the
reiserfs_raw patch.

Hans