On 25.03.08 10:23, Marcus Kool wrote: > I wish that the wiki for RIAD is rewritten. I think that (nearly) anyone can rewrite it, but... > Companies depend on internet access and a working Squid proxy > and therefore the advocated "no problem if a single disk fails" > is not from today's reality. That's a different problem similar to one that was raised already: squid should be able to work if one of configured cache_dirs is unavailable. Ability to remove the cache_dir if it fails is just enhancing of this functionality. If there is no bugreport for this, it's time to create one... > One should also consider the difference between > simple RAID and extremely advanced RAID disk systems > (i.e. EMC and other arrays). > The external disk arrays like EMC with internal RAID5 are simply faster > than a JBOD of internal disks. in such case RAID1 of such disks would be even faster, if you need reliability (for now) or raid0 or maybe JBOD using the EMD... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton