Chris Mauritz wrote:
I threw caution to the wind and updated my firmware (turns out the machines were using 9550SX controllers, not 9500) from 3.04 to 3.08 on a couple of production CentOS 4 and my test CentOS 5 machines. EXT3 performance seems to have improved noticeably on the RAID 0 devices I tested so it might be worth the update.
Some numbers would be good... like bonnie++ results, and some feedback as to what the config of your raid setup is like.