Re: [squid-users] Caching large amounts of images...

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:47:31 +0200

> >don't raid0/raid5 your cache disks. squid has more cache-disks
> >functionality that's better (faster and more secure) than raid0, and
> >raid5 KILLS I/O performance.

On 29.06.06 12:42, Chris Robertson wrote:
> And RAID1 is not optimal (I hesitate to say "bad") for writes.
> Besides, cached data is very transient, and doesn't need the security
> that RAID1 provides. Hence, don't bother with RAID for cache disks... :o)

RAID1 is fast for reads, so the more hits you have, the more it helps :)
RAID1 is safe against disk outages (if you care about data in your cache).
=>
RAID1 is OK in some cases, others are not.

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