[OpenAFS] improving cache partition performance

[Edgecombe, Jason]

% fs getcacheparms
AFS using 145647975 of the cache's available 212484585 1K byte blocks.

I'm already using RAID 0, so I'm already striping. I'll have to do some ben=
chmarking with ext2.

Our web servers handle PHP web apps and large movie files.

Jason

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-----Original Message-----
From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org=
] On Behalf Of Harald Barth
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 8:13 AM
To: openafs-info@openafs.org
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] improving cache partition performance


> 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.
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