Overall I'm of the belief that reiserfs is robust enough for mainstream
use, and it's significantly faster than ext2 for the squid box, you do as
usal need to be a bit selective about what kernel you choose to run.
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Martín Marqués wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are waiting for a server with dual PIII, RAID 1,0 and 5 18Gb scsi disks to
> come so we can change our proxy server, that will run on Linux with Squid.
> One disk will go inside (I think?) and the other 4 on a tower conected to the
> RAID, which will be have the cache of the squid server.
>
> One of my partners thinks that we should use reiserfs on all the server (the
> partitions of the Linux distro, and the cache partitions), and I found out
> that reiserfs has had lots of bugs, and is marked as experimental in kernel
> 2.4.4. Not to mention that the people of RH discourage there users from using
> it.
>
> There has also been lots of talks about reiserfs being the cause of some data
> lose and performance lose (not sure about this last one).
>
> So what I want is to know which is the status of this 3 journaling FS. Which
> is the one we should look for?
>
> I think that the data lose is not significant in a proxy cache, if the FS is
> really fast, as is said reiserfs is.
>
> Saludos... :-)
>
>
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