[OpenAFS] improving cache partition performance

Harald Barth haba@kth.se
Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:13:07 +0200 (CEST)


> For starters, I'd use ext2 instead of ext3, or perhaps use ext4 with
> journaling turned off.

I'd second the use of ext2 for AFS cache because you can allways wipe
and start over with an empty cache partition. During a crash, the
transactions that were not written to the server yet are lost anyway.

How big a cache do you need for your web server? Maybe stripe/mirror
would do much better than RAID5.

Harald.