Thanks for the "head's up" on this. Scott Silva wrote: > I just saw the following in the release notes for the new firmware for the > later 3ware cards; > > Improved CIFS performance > The firmware has been tuned to greatly increase performance with CIFS (Common > Internet File System) protocol. However, this has resulted in performance with > the Linux ext3 file system that is slower than earlier releases. We recommend > that you use other Linux file systems, such as XFS. > > So it looks like ext3 performance would be worse. What are they thinking? > They are going to drive linux people away. >