From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 3 4:32:44 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 04:32:42 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moon.harmonic.co.il (moon.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F3D37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 04:32:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by moon.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00680; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:29:58 +0200 To: Thomas Seck Subject: Re: Vinum safe to use for raid 0? Message-ID: <978524998.3a531b460566f@webmail.harmonic.co.il> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:29:58 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010102230107.A559@basildon.homerun> In-Reply-To: <20010102230107.A559@basildon.homerun> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Thomas Seck : > 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 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message