Re: [squid-users] Cache_dir more than 10GB

On mån, 2008-10-06 at 08:49 +0200, Francois Cami wrote:

> I would not run an ext3 filesystem with data=writeback . noatime and
> nodiratime provide a welcome boost by eliminating unneeded writes,
> however writeback is not {powerfailure, system crash}-safe. If you
> value your time (especially the time spent putting systems back up
> after a system failure), you should use data=ordered.

I don't value the cache contents much, and in fact in some installations
I automatically mkfs the cache partitions on a power failure or system
crash instead of running a filesystem check.. This allows aggressive
tuning for performance.

Regards
Henrik