[Linux-cachefs] using cachefs

Shaya Potter spotter at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Aug 29 17:30:32 UTC 2006


David Howells wrote:
> 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.

i figured that :)  I was just stating my experience so other's don't 
have to ponder why its not building.




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