Debbie Tropiano wrote: > Steve - > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:24:57AM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 10:14 -0500, Debbie Tropiano wrote: >>> Kirk - >>> I've not been following ReiserFS for a long time, but the last time I worked >>> with it (several years ago) we ran into problems with file corruption. It >>> may be that they have all been fixed, but I'd look into that as well. >> Makes one wonder if Linux is reasonably usable with 3ware. ;-) > > I think you may have intended to snip out something else ... > > The ReiserFS work that I did was with different HW and didn't include any > 3ware RAID cards (IIRC it was a Dell RAID but that was quite a while back). I guess that was before 2.4.18? reiserfs suffered from being out of sync with vfs code before 2.4.18. > > But we've had good stability issues with EXT3 on 3ware cards with RAID 5 > once we upgraded our oldest card to the 9000 series. Since ours are > production systems, we prioritized stability over performance and have > been satisfied. We are now revisiting other FS types (XFS especially) > but still need the stability. I'm interested in what happens for us. write cache off :P > > Debbie "who's probably gone OT since our fileservers are running FC2 & 3" Nah. These issues are across the board...even the i/o schedulers are same across FC2/3 and Centos 4/RHEL 4.