Re: Can I *not* have an on-disk cache?

Steve Willer wrote:

> What do you mean by "soft updates"?

Make the filesystem behave like Linux has behaved all the time. Don't do
strict updates of the on-disk filesystem when creating/deleting files,
but buffer the changes in the filesystem cache to be flushed out at a
later time by the kernel (where later is typically shortly).

noatime is strongly recommended for any Squid cache disk. It takes away
a lot of I/O burden from cache hits and directory accesses.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker