"Lightfoot.Michael" wrote: > I have tried both striping across two or more disks and > individual disk filesystems and concur with Robert. > There is no measurable performance gain in striping and > there is a cache availablility gain in using more than > one cache directory (you never lose the whole cache if > you have an individual disk failure.)
Also system recovery time is improved when using separate drives * fsck can run in parallell on each drive if needed * full cleanout of the cache with mkfs can also be done in parallell on all the drives Only benefits from having separate drives, no drawbacks. Regards Henrik