Ok, so my boss wants one linux distro around and likes redhat because of enterprise support. I prefer slackware and already have a bunch of servers running slack around here.

We are starting with are proxy servers that are just running squid.

I have a breed of finely tuned Dell PE 2450 running slackware with reiserfs and the fs for squid's store.

I just tuned a Dell PE 2650 running Redhat with ex3 as the fs for squids information store

The slackware with reiserfs' service time is twice as better as the redhats machine while doing the same thing. The slackware machines have 3 times less the hardware power as the Redhat machine.

It's clear what I need to do, has anyone had any problems incorporating reiserfs into redhat. The root partition can stay ex3, all in need is the store drives to be reiser.

Any input would be great.

RHEL 3 supports ReiserFS via the kernel-unsupported package. Sadly though, they seem to have completely dropped support in RHEL 4.

--jeremy

When you boot the install cd, at the prompt do this:

# boot: linux reiserfs

That should give you reiserfs support during the install. errrr...at least thats how its done in RedHat/Fedora. I'm assuming its the same for RHEL

When I took their admin course, RedHat did not support Reiserfs in RHEL3.
In fact, the textbook still indicated preliminary support, but the instructor specifically told us to amend that page before we started the class.
It may work of course, but in an enterprise situation, you gotta wonder.

yes this will be in an enterprise situation, unfortunately the out-of-the-box setup does not perform up to par

a dual 2.8ghz/ 4gig ram / 3x79 scsi 320 runs slower w/ ext3

then a dual 666mhz / 1 gig ram / 3x16 scsi 160 with reiserfs at squid. Squid utilizes disk i/o more then processing power. If I can't get this stable then the boss is going to have to realize that redhat is not the way to go.


# boot: linux reiserfs

I'll give this a shot on monday

If you need the journalling, best solution might be SLES, they support reiserfs.