[KLUG Members] Considering limited ReiserFS usage for Squid filesystem

[Michael W. Holdeman]

I've been using ReiserFS on my laptop 2.4.5, and on a file server 2.4.5, with 
NFS exports. I haven't had any problems? what are teh issues with NFS and 
Reiser??

Mike.


On Monday 03 September 2001 08:20, you wrote:
> > 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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