[CentOS] slow i/o with a raid 50 on a 3ware controller
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Aug 7 01:04:55 UTC 2014
On 8/6/2014 5:32 PM, Markus Falb wrote:
> Do you have barriers enabled?
> Just another shot in the dark, but 5 didn't have that.
> If you have battery backed Cache with your Controller, you can safely
> disable barriers anyway.
are you sure about this? thats not my understanding.
What I've been told is, the battery backed write cache just lets you
enable writeback caching in the raid controller, write barriers at the
various OS layers still have to be respected, as they ensure certain
writes are completed in order.
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