Re: [squid-users] squid with linux or freeBSD?

From: Brett Lymn <blymn@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:21:20 +0930

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:38:09AM +0800, fooler wrote:
>
> since you have 3 disks and that is the minimum requirement for raid 5, if
> one disk failed the entire raid 5 system fails...

Uh *hello*, not in any raid 5 that I know of. This is simply not
true, raid 5 is raid 5 - you lose a disk it will go degraded. Sure,
there is a minimum number of disks and there is an optimal number of
disks but in terms of data protection the capability will be the same.

> just go for raid 0 instead
> for maximum performance...
>

or just let squid manage the 3 spindles itself.

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Brett Lymn
Received on Wed Apr 30 2003 - 19:52:00 MDT

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