[CentOS] Write performance with 3ware 9550

chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> I'm doing this from memory as the machine is at another location now.  I 
> think I did this:
> 
> turned off ncq (per Josh's suggestion)
> turned on write caching (it's on an oversized ups and the data isn't 
> critical)
> set storsave to "performance"
> changed the memory interleave (thanks to kirk's suggestion).  It was off 
> by default.
> used parted to create gpt disklabel
> set noatime and one other option that was suggested here for the RAID 
> partition
> used mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/blah
> 
> That was it.

Okay, now try installing kernel-module-xfs and xfsutils (located in the 
centosplus repository), run mkfs.xfs on some unused space, mount and re-run 
bonnie++.