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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:29:58 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
To:        Thomas Seck <tmseck@web.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum safe to use for raid 0?
Message-ID:  <978524998.3a531b460566f@webmail.harmonic.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20010102230107.A559@basildon.homerun>
References:  <20010102230107.A559@basildon.homerun>

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Quoting Thomas Seck <tmseck@web.de>:

> Hi all,
> 
> sorry if this is OT for -stable, but I followed the discussion about 
> vinum in here and got a bit worried. 
> 
> I am currently deploying a proxy server for our company. It shall use 
> squid on 4.2-STABLE. I would like to put the cache data on a vinum RAID 
> 0, made of three U160 disks. As I understood the discussion so far, 
> there are some unresolved problems with the raid 5 code. Could someone 
> tell me whether I can safely use vinum for building a raid 0 system 
> (despite the fact that the HW may be a point of failure of course)? 
> 
> Thanks in advance and best regards from Germany
> 
> -Thomas Seck

But why would you want to use it for squid? Just define multiple cachedirs.
It's surely more simple to deploy and maintain, and it may even be better in
performance.

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]


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