Re: [squid-users] RE: SQUID V2.5 and cache disk configs

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:48:25 +0100

"Lightfoot.Michael" wrote:

> 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.)

Also system recovery time is improved when using separate drives

 * fsck can run in parallell on each drive if needed

 * full cleanout of the cache with mkfs can also be done in parallell on
all the drives

Only benefits from having separate drives, no drawbacks.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Feb 05 2003 - 00:03:23 MST

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