Re: cache dir

Hi.

From: Yomler <yomler.squid@fnac.net>
To: "Jens-S. Voeckler" <voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de>
Copies to: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Re: cache dir
Date sent: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:40:41 +1000

> If we have one cache-dir per physical disk, how squid will deal with a
> disk failure ? If we use RAID 5, how many logical disk is it better to
> mount ? One huge partition of 50-200+ Go wih only one cache_dir option
> is it a good tunning ? Is it better to split the RAID 5 array in
> several logical disks ?
> Is it worth to get disks in RAID 5 array ?
> Thanks to help us to understand better the kind of optimization we can
> do with cache_dir option.

You should have one cache_dir on each physical disk.. RAID will only
cause a drop in performance.. There have been a few threads on this
in the past that you should read up on before doing that sort of
thing.

Cya
Matthew
Received on Tue Apr 11 2000 - 01:28:31 MDT