RE: [squid-users] RAID, 64bit and cache_dir size

2006-01-13 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Gregori Parker wrote: Thanks for the answers...I forgot to mention that this deployment of squid will be used to accelerate back-end servers and geographically extend our CDN. I was planning to use RAID5, am I hearing this is okay for non-proxy implementations? Yes. Rega

RE: [squid-users] RAID, 64bit and cache_dir size

2006-01-13 Thread Gregori Parker
: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:51 AM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: [squid-users] RAID, 64bit and cache_dir size I've been reading up in preparation for a deployment of Squid into a large enterprise cluster to extend our CDN, and I have been unable to determine solid answers fo

Re: [squid-users] RAID, 64bit and cache_dir size

2006-01-13 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Gregori Parker wrote: I have read that RAID is a bad idea for squid caches For Internet proxies yes, as they rotate their cache content quite frequently, causing a lot of small writes which most RAID setups isn't very happy about. For accelerators where the content is

Re: [squid-users] RAID, 64bit and cache_dir size

2006-01-12 Thread Mark Elsen
> > I've been reading up in preparation for a deployment of Squid into a > large enterprise cluster to extend our CDN, and I have been unable to > determine solid answers for the following questions. Thanks in advance > for any insight you guys can provide. > > I have read that RAID is a bad ide

[squid-users] RAID, 64bit and cache_dir size

2006-01-12 Thread Gregori Parker
I've been reading up in preparation for a deployment of Squid into a large enterprise cluster to extend our CDN, and I have been unable to determine solid answers for the following questions. Thanks in advance for any insight you guys can provide. I have read that RAID is a bad idea for squid