Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

Hans Reiser
2001-05-10T14:59:38Z

john slee wrote:

> > quite a bit of scope for improvement. Commercial caching systems have
> > demonstrated thoughput of thousands of requests/s with similar
> > hardware, but I suspect Tux-ification of Squid will be necessary to
>
> not at all, search for X15 in april/may linux-kernel archives. most of
> the specific improvements tux made have been reduced to improvements for
> the general case, hence squid (or equivalent) could probably improve a
> fair amount.
>
> j.
>
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squid needs a deep rewrite, and the sponsor for our doing that is flaking
regarding sending us money, so for now I have to say to people that even
though reiserfs is faster for squid than ext2, the bottleneck is squid not
reiserfs, and you really should use the proprietary stuff because the
proprietary guys have taken squid, rewritten its engine which is badly
designed, stolen the gpl code, and nobody is suing them for it and they are
so much faster than squid that the cost of the software is worth paying for
(unless you dislike stolen gpl code:-(, and even then there are some like
Novell that didn't steal from squid and are faster).

Hans