Re: [squid-users] How do I set the sotrage up in the most efficient way?

David wrote:
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> Hello dear List.
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> I am looking at how to best setup the storage for a test squid Server.
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> The server hardware looks as follows:
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> P4 1800Ghz with 512 MB RAM
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> 4 IDE Harddisks with 39Gig. They are connected to an IDE RAID controller.
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> Right now there are two logical devices
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> /dev/sda which is a RAID5 and has 17 Gig (it holds all the system
> relevant data)
> /dev/sdb which is a RAID3 and has 100 Gig.
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> I split /dev/sdb into paritions of 10 Gigabyte and right now 8 are
> reiserfs and 2 are JFS.
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> I am in a testing environment, so it should be easy to alter those
> values, Raid seems to be a prerequisite and is the only thing I cannot
> alter. I picked RAID for the throughput reason, yet if you have some
> other recommendation for me, I would be more than happy to oblige.
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> Right now I am, as you can see, testing reiserfs and jfs, is there any
> better recommendation for a file system which squid uses as its storage?
> We are looking at about 250 very special users here and a so called
> autonomy fetch which will use the Server. The autonomy fetch can easily
> produce up to gigabytes of data on a daily basis.

Prefer SCSI disk instead of IDE disk (don't use RAID5 as well) If you
have chance. And also as far as i know reiserfs is more acceptable. I'm
sure guru people can help more to you for explanation reasons.

Regards,
Ilker G.
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Received on Thu Jan 30 2003 - 02:01:08 MST