>
> Would it make sense to configure the remaining 5 drives using
> LVM to create one large cache disk... or simply create 5
> individual cache disks???
>
I have tried both striping across two or more disks and individual disk filesystems and concur with Robert. There is no measurable performance gain in striping and there is a cache availablility gain in using more than one cache directory (you never lose the whole cache if you have an individual disk failure.)
Michael Lightfoot
Unix Consultant
ISG Host Systems
Comcare
+61 2 62750680
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