[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

Wed Oct 4 14:50:47 UTC 2006
Dan Stoner <dstoner at flmnh.ufl.edu>

> 
> At the time, I had a long discussion about it on nahant-list (see the 
> embarrassingly titled thread that starts here 
> <https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-October/msg00271.html>) 
> with no resolution.  And I brought it up again on the ext3 list in April.

It seems that some of the "performance sucks" feeling should actually be 
directed at the 3Ware RAID adapter that is common in those threads 
rather than the filesystem.


Using Bonnie against hardware RAID5 on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 (PERC4 
something-or-other using Megaraid driver) on ext3 gives 75 MB/s.


  Dan Stoner
  Network Administrator
  Florida Museum of Natural History
  University of Florida