Re: [squid-users] Linux, SGI's XFS Filesystem and SQUID

While it's true that XFS was designed for large files originally (Irix
being commonly used as a 'media OS', after all), recent benchmarks would
seem to indicate that it is now quite fast for almost every type of
workload, including lots of small files. Deletes are still somewhat
slow (but then again, they are slow in ReiserFS also--it's the nature of
journalling without a separate journal device I suppose).

I wouldn't bet on it being better suited for Squid than Reiser, but I
probably wouldn't bet against it either.

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Simon Morley wrote:
>
>>Has anyone tried SGI's XFS Filesystem on Linux with SQUID ?
>>
>
>>From what I have read XFS should perform quite badly for Squid workloads
> (random I/O with lots of small files being created/read/deleted)... it
> is simply not designed for such applications. But my memory might be
> muddy and confusing some other advanced filesystem with XFS..
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid hacker

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Received on Thu May 10 2001 - 16:15:00 MDT