Re: [squid-users] RAID stripes sizes...

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar_at_fantomas.sk>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:28:19 +0100

> From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
> > Squid for cache storage both reads and writes in fixed discrete 4096 byte
> > chunks to random files in the cache in random sequence. COSS is the only
> > exception so far. It reads/writes in MB chunks.
> > JBOD is best, on fast disks.

On 08.12.09 02:41, John Doe wrote:
> Yes but, as long as squid does not handle disk crashes gracefully, I am
> stuck with RAID...

what kind of RAID? for mirrors, you don't need stripe size. Stripes aren't
safer than single disks. RAID5 is slow, unless you have hardware RAID.

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