I would recommend no RAID. RAID0 won't gain you much, if anything. RAID5 will
lose you a lot in overhead because cache-writes happen in patterns that RAID5
is suboptimal for.
D
Heinz Ahrens wrote:
> 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 Wed Jan 26 2000 - 23:54:54 MST
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