Filesystem advice

[BarryDocks]

I have the luxury of using 2 separate drives on my new server as a stripped raid (software) array for web proxy-cache data, etc. Obviously I want this to be as fast as possible, I would be grateful on advice as to the most suitable file system to use for this purpose? I was thinking of ext2 or resierfs?
Thanks

[BarryDocks]

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anyone?

[ian dobson]

Hi,

resierfs may not have a very rosy future. ext2 is an old fs, maybe ext4 as a further development of ext2/3. for web caching you'll be mainly dealing with reading/writing lots of small files so ext4 might be the best way to go.

If you don't plan to use a seperate boot drive/hardware RAID:-
I'm not sure if you can boot from a stripped drive (does grub support it?) so the best idea would be to create a small mirrored boot partition and a second partition (stripped) for your cache data.

Regards
Ian Dobson