On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:31:33PM -0600, Erik Anderson wrote: > On 11/23/05, Brian Wall <kc0iog at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm building a new squid proxy server. I'd like to put the proxy > > cache on its own partition. Is ther a file system that would be > > better optimized for proxy cache? I'm not a fan of Ext2/3, but I'm > > not familiar enough with Reiser, JFS, XFS, etc to know which is best > > for handling a large amount of small files. > > You might have already thought of this and turned the idea down, but > how about using tmpfs for this to keep the cache in RAM? Do you know > how large of a cache you'll be keeping? If it's not too large, say > under a gig or two, you might consider this, because no disk > filesystem will beat the performance of RAM. Huh? In that case, give the RAM directly to squid and cut the middle man. florin -- Don't question authority: they don't know either! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20051201/f7e05211/attachment-0001.pgp