Re: squid storage: stripes vs separate drives for cache dirs

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 16:57:22 +0200

squid-list@vsu.ru wrote:

> what is considered better if we have 2 (or 5, or 7) 4Gb fast wide scsi
> hard disks: make a single stripe for squid cache, or put different
> cache directories to each disk?

My recommendation is one cache_dir on each drive. Squid does not benefit
from striping, and having one large striped disk makes you loose all
your cache if one drive should fail.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Received on Sat Apr 03 1999 - 08:39:29 MST

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