Re: [squid-users] anyone compared comparison of reiserfs vs ext3 on linux recently ?

Mike wrote:
>
> Can anyone proffer an opinion about the merits of using reiserfs over
> default linux filesystems ext3 for a squid server ?

Default? Both fulesystems are available by default in the Linux kernel
tree, and most modern distros allows you to select either..

From what I recall the last measuring indicated

  reiserfs <= ext2 <= ext3

for Squid HTTP proxy performance, but only by a small margin, perhaps
even outside the statistical variance.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Jan 02 2003 - 12:56:42 MST