Re: [squid-users] Squid and RAID

From: Neil A. Hillard <hillardn@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:52:23 +0100

Hi,

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 16.05.06 12:24, Neil A. Hillard wrote:
>> Paolo Biancolli wrote:
>>> I presume the FAQ refers to the cache drives and not the OS drives
>>> (assuming they are seprate drives)?
>> Do you really want your OS on a striped partition? That doubles your
>> chances of losing your OS!
>
> I am not sure if he can have OS on stripped (RAID0) partition.
> I'm sure he can't boot from it. And afaik it's the same for RAID5.

I guess it's a case of whether he's using hardware or software RAID.
You can definitely boot off a hardware controller whilst using RAID5 and
RAID1. Software you can boot from RAID1 but I've never tried RAID0 as
most of my servers need to be resilient.

                                Neil.

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