Re: RAID or no RAID

A physical HD with a separate filesystem is always better in cache tech. As
the swap file size, Number of objects can be store and many other reason.
With Regards
Ahsan Khan
Sr. System Admin
Internet Division (OneNet)
Sun Communication Pvt. Ltd.
http://www.one.net.pk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heinz Ahrens" <xf01070@gmx.de>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 5:27 PM
Subject: RAID or no RAID

> Hallo Squid-Users,
>
> in future we will use 2 new squid-caches with perhaps 3 x 15 GB cache on 3
> disks on each system.
>
> We use AIX RS/6000 and my short question:
>
> What is better:
>
> RAID0 or squid.conf like this:
>
> cache_dir /usr/local/squid/cache1 15000 16 256
> cache_dir /usr/local/squid/cache2 15000 16 256
> cache_dir /usr/local/squid/cache3 15000 16 256
>
> Ok, i read www.squid-cache.org and some people wrote RAID0 is good, other
> squid-users say RAID0 is bad, because of no redundancy. I think RAID5 is
no
> alternative, or ???
> I want to get a high performance because in future i must manage thousands
> of people with my caches.
>
> Perhaps someone can help me
>
> Greetings from Germany
> Heinz Ahrens
>
>
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Received on Tue Jan 25 2000 - 11:39:16 MST