From: Amos Jeffries <[email protected]> > Squid for cache storage both reads and writes in fixed discrete 4096 byte > chunks to random files in the cache in random sequence. COSS is the only > exception so far. It reads/writes in MB chunks. > JBOD is best, on fast disks.
Yes but, as long as squid does not handle disk crashes gracefully, I am stuck with RAID... From: Marcus Kool <[email protected]> > Stripes need be be larger than the average object size to have > concurrent access to more than one object at the same time. > The *average* objects size is 13 KB so to be on the safe side > I would use a stripe size of 32K or more. > The optimal size also depends on the file system type that you use. So, I guess a big stripe (our average object sizes are 1.5M for one cache and 70K for another) would be better to minimize the seeks... Thx to both, JD
