[CentOS] 3ware disk failure -> hang
David Finch
david at mytsoftware.com
Fri Jan 6 20:30:08 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>
> I guess it depens on your definition of "trouble". These are
> benchmarks I ran on this system with the 2 3wares in hardware RAID5
> and a software RAID0 across them:
>
> write read
> ----- ----
> ext2 81 180
> ext3 34 222
> XFS 109 213
>
> That ext3 write speed was something I just wasn't willing to live with
> on a system that used to perform so much better (running RH7.3, hw
> RAID, and XFS).
>
Glad to know it's not just me. Using ext3 on a 3ware raid 5 of four
250gb disks. Writes are slow and seem to halt the server until they
complete, but it's not a server where response time or write speed is
critical.
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