Re: number of Cache Directories

From: Henny Bekker <H.Bekker@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 03:03:09 +0100 (MET)

Hi Benjamin,

> > Using RAID5 is currently a bad idea and will give poor performance (many
> > random writes == worst case for RAID5). Either use no disk redundancy or
> > use mirroring.
> >
> How about using RAID0?
>
RAID0 is disk-striping, and that's not a bad thing...

I agree RAID5 is useless but it mostly comes with a big write-thrue cache
which is also a good idea..

Cheers, Henny

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