Re: [squid-users] Squid HD Limitation

From: Denys Fedorysychenko <nuclearcat_at_nuclearcat.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:19:56 +0200

On Thursday 25 February 2010 13:42:52 Amos Jeffries wrote:
> My opinion of RAID behind Squid is very poor. Avoid if at all possible.
>
> HW RAID is claimed to be workable though, particularly as the price
> range and quality goes up.
>
> The RAID0 operations of striping are duplication of the object spread
> Squid itself performs between its cache_dir. So all you really gain
> there is a larger total disk (Squid don't care about that) and risk of
> loosing the entire lot if any stripe platters die.
What about that sequental read of file on RAID0 is faster?
Sure if file is larger than double stripe size.
Received on Thu Feb 25 2010 - 16:20:17 MST

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