Re: [squid-users] Why UFS

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Ravi.B.C.B. wrote:

> Hai,
>
> Is there any significance of Squid maintaining the Cache in UFS and
> specifically having 16 ( Ist level directories ) and 256 ( IInd level
> directories ).

yes the ufs selection implies that access to the filesystem is syncronous,
rather than asyncronous...

the number of first and second level directories is a measure of how many
total subdirectories there are to store files in, in this case there are
4096 subdirs for files... This number is kinda important because some
filesystems are very slow if you have to traverse a directory with several
thousand files in it so squid will only store limited number of files in
each end directory.

> Regards,
>
> Bhushan
>

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