How can I configure squid to use TWO hard drives??
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I know in the forums there's lots of threads that talk about using a separate hard drive for squid, but what if I had two hard drives I want to use? Can squid use them simultaneously? How is this done? I've got two IDE hard drives, one 40GB and one 60GB. We have 5 users on our network but since I do lots of web development stuff and my brother facebooks a lot, and we watch lots of youtubes, we tend to need a lot. Although we are limited to 500MB/day (satellite internet) and I tend to get up at 5:00 so I can do my downloads then and not go over the FAP limit.
So, I'm thinking that a 60GB drive might not be good enough because it will probably stay at about 75-90% full, and that that might make it slower. And I've read that its faster to use two drives and configure squid to use them. So, how is this done?
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There is no support in the GUI for doing such a thing, but if you can manage to fdisk and newfs the drive by hand (or on another freebsd box via sysinstall) you can probably add it to /etc/fstab and have it mounted by the system. There are some docs in the FreeBSD handbook which explain this process.
Eventually it might be nice for someone to write up a "storage" package of some sort to handle this kind of task, but it would be a fair amount of work.
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What about the use of geom_stripe? Its inside freebsd and the setup is quiet simple? Would this be an option????
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-striping.html
