From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 17:59:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 17:58:55 -0400 Received: from [63.95.87.168] ([63.95.87.168]:42501 "HELO xi.linuxpower.cx") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 17:58:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:58:36 -0400 From: Gregory Maxwell To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 Message-ID: <20010510175836.A16497@xi.linuxpower.cx> In-Reply-To: <01050910381407.26653@bugs> <20010510134453.A6816@emma1.emma.line.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.8i In-Reply-To: <20010510134453.A6816@emma1.emma.line.org>; from matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:44:53PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:44:53PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: [snip] > 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 > ;-) A while ago I configured a few squid boxes which ran off of a read-only system. Mke2fs is actually unacceptably slow on large file systems, faster then fsck, but still time consuming. I found that zeroing out the disk, then formating it and saving the non-zero blocks, replaying them on reboot to be an acceptable solution.