Feizhou wrote: > >> disappointing, but it's true. Supermicro verified what all of you >> said. And since I'm not very interested in software RAID, i'll be >> dropping a hardware RAID card in and let my vendor know not to try >> and sell any more of these to those intending to use a Linux OS. >> >> I'll try out your software RAID steps to give me something to play >> with till the hardware card shows up, since they are very clear and >> concise. Maybe it'll soften the empty 'no hardware raid5' feeling >> one has at present. > > > Hardware raid is not necessarily faster than software raid. If you are > going to do raid5...make sure your card has plenty of cache. However, > that may be moot anyway unless you use some filesystem other than > ext3...is it a 3ware card? 3ware + RAID5 + ext3 = slow. Well, I had them ship me a 3ware 9550 card, and yes, am using ext3, -there's no onboard battery backup module, so the write cache is disabled. So this would be slow then? Am using this as a Java Development machine. Any suggestions as to the filesystem type that would work best? I'll order a battery backup unit so we can proceed and enable write cache. -krb > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos