Re: [squid-users] squid with linux or freeBSD?

why raid your disks at all? you'll get before performance out of having
seperate cache dirs on each disk than you will out of any kind of
stripe...

the data in the cache isn't important enough to save over a disk crash
anyway.

joelja

On Thu, 1 May 2003, fooler wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mauro" <mauro.sanna6@tin.it>
> To: "Ahmad Masood Shah" <masood@ipsec.fibre.net.pk>
> Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 9:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid with linux or freeBSD?
>
>
> > On Wednesday 30 April 2003 14:18, Ahmad Masood Shah wrote:
> > > sorry I was forget cc to squid list :)
> > > I think raid1 is best for squid..... regarding disk performance..
> > > can try raid0 too
> >
> > I have 3 disks.
> > I think that raid 5 is not so bad.
>
> since you have 3 disks and that is the minimum requirement for raid 5, if
> one disk failed the entire raid 5 system fails... just go for raid 0 instead
> for maximum performance...
>
> fooler.
>

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