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 10:42:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:42:37 -0400 Received: from idiom.com ([216.240.32.1]:5900 "EHLO idiom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:42:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3AFAA8BC.EC219B5@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:42:04 -0700 From: Hans Reiser X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14cl i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Andree CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 In-Reply-To: <01050910381407.26653@bugs> <20010510134453.A6816@emma1.emma.line.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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