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I think ext3 is a bit slow on so big LUNS, try xfs or similar?

there is no official support for xfs in RHEL5, so that is not an option. Besides, I'm talking about a drop of >150mb/s to ~10mb/s read performance when cracking the 2.2T size. This is clearly not in the ext3 (or FS for that matter) magnitude of performance issues. Also, numbers stay the same when dd'ing on the raw device (LUN).

-Jens

Hello Jens,

I always used LVM to make LUNs from a NetApp SAN available to CentOS/RHEL 4/5 systems. Administrating several systems with multiple LUNs of +2.2TB and not seeing such a negative performance impact. Filesystem used is ext3.

Regards

Alexander