Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar <at> fantomas.sk> writes: > Do not use stripping for squid caches. squid has its own way for using > multiple drives, which is safer and more effective. I have read some of the discussions about RAID and Squid, and I think that this is a good setup for two reasons: The System itself is running over the stripe set and also the Virusscan Proxy will benefit from the StripeSet Performance gain. > Use sepatate drives, filesystems and cache dirs. > Kernel and system may be on separate drived or raid1 (mirror) for safety There are only 2 drives in these 1U Pizzaboxes we use. So Raid 1 would have been an option if we wanted to go for availability. We are using Kickstart and a homemade perl script to set these machines up, so if one of the drives fails we loose the cache, but we can do a reinstall in about 15 Minutes. > > have the other configured as neighbour cache and on both the parent is > > the VirusWall (3.81), which is also installed on the Squid Boxes. > > You should use aufs on linux, it behaves better than diskd. Aha. Interesting, can you point me somewhere to find more information about this? I think I read something that diskd was more stable than aufs or so? Kind Regards and thanks for your ideas! Maik
