Good point. Never thought about it... Performance is not the issue after
all.
I dont mind losing the data in the cache, but if one disk fails the
downtime will be much higher with a failing stripe.
No need to panic, but I will split them asap.
Thanks! Hendrik.
Adam Aube wrote:
> Hendrik Voigtländer wrote:
>
>
>>I agree at once with RAID 5.
>>Striping should speed up disk performance the same way squid uses
>>multiple disks, don't you think?
>
>
> Yes, but if all you are doing is striping, then you might be better off
> splitting the disks - a disk failure will only wipe out part of your cache
> instead of all of it.
>
> Adam
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