[Linux-cachefs] using cachefs

[David Howells]

Shaya Potter <spotter at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> what file system is reccomended to be the fs-cache backing store? (ext2,
> 3....?)

I mainly use Ext3, but I've also used ReiserFS.  Ext2 has no journalling,
though this does not preclude its use.

> also from experience now on debian, one needs glibc 2.4 in order to build
> cachefilesd as the *at() functions arne't in the 2.3 tree.  the 2.3.999 is
> only available in experimental.

I don't use Debian, I use Fedora or RHEL.

David