[KLUG Members] Considering limited ReiserFS usage for Squid filesystem

[Bruce Smith]

> 1.  What kind of performance differentially while I have in using
> ReiserFS versus Ext2 for Squid?

I've never tried it on Squid, but I've heard it helps a lot.

I use ReiserFS for some of my other partitions on Redhat 7.1.

> 2.  I am sticking with RedHat (for various reasons, largely because
> the rest of the system will be XFS, and that is what SGI builds
> for), so what is the best way to get the ReiserFS support utils
> installed?  From where?

>From Redhat 7.1 CD #2:  reiserfs-utils-3.x.0f-1.i386.rpm
Works for me.

> 3.  Are there any additional ReiserFS patches that are not in the
> stock kernel I should be aware of?  I'm going to start off with the
> updated, patched RedHat 7.1 kernel (2.4.3), but am planning to move
> to 2.4.9 shortly (from stock -- actually from the XFS CVS tree, but
> it is based on the stock kernel).

I haven't researched it, other than reading the interview with 
Hans Reiser who said there wasn't any outstanding problems with
ReiserFS not in the latest kernel.

I use ReiserFS with 2.4.9 at home, and 2.4.3 on my laptop.
No problem so far (knock wood).

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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