On 06.06.08 18:35, Brodsky, Jared S. wrote: > Getting ready to roll out a squid server in my organization after doing > about a month of testing on it on a virtual machine in VMware server. > Is running squid in a virtual environment recommended, or is having a > dedicated box a safer way to go? I'll have about 30 users that hit > YouTube and other streaming media sites throughout the day and I am > hoping to cache a lot of it since many watch the same ones more than > once. I do, however have a box set aside that I can use which is a P4 3 > Ghz w/ 1GB ram and was going to drop in two 10,000 RPM drives for the > cache. I know that the squid wiki says JBOD is preferable, however is > RAID 0 a bad way to go? when you loose one disk in RAID0 (or system level of JBOD), You'll loose the whole cache. If it happens with multiple cache directories (squid't use of JBOD), you'll only loose that part on that disk... -- 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. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
