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.