On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 at 10:50am, Dan Stoner wrote >> 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. Except for the fact that other FSes on the same hardware get far better performance. These were my results using 2 7506-8 boards, each in hardware RAID5 mode, with a software RAIDO on top: write read ----- ---- ext2 81 180 ext3 34 222 XFS 109 213 -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University