[CentOS] software raid

[William Warren]

the mistake folks make is running md raid on a 3ware..that's slow.  dump 
md raid if you are on something like a 3ware.

Feizhou wrote:
> William Warren wrote:
>> as soon as you goto software raid 5 you'll get a good performance hit. 
>> Head for the hardware raid cards then.  You can get the 3ware ide 
>> cards for 150 or less now.
> 
> don't know if it is still the case but ext3 + 3ware + ext3 = ultra slow. 
> you'd want to use XFS or some other filesystem...
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