[Gllug] Restore RAID0 /var

Dan Kolb gllug at eco.li
Wed Aug 26 13:51:26 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:48:52PM +0100, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> Er, I believe he explained that, he has "a lot of backend data to search
> on a regular basis" and his business right now is performance testing.
> There's nothing wrong with using RAID for performance over reliability
> if you're happy to suck up the increased risk of downtime and data loss.

And if you RAID-1, then you have multiple disks to read data off. So an
increased read performance (at the expense of slower writing).

Dan
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