3ware disk failure -> hang

[david at mytsoftware.com (David Finch)]

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>
> I guess it depens on your definition of "trouble".  These are 
> benchmarks I ran on this system with the 2 3wares in hardware RAID5 
> and a software RAID0 across them:
>
>      write   read
>      -----   ----
> ext2    81    180
> ext3    34    222
> XFS    109    213
>
> That ext3 write speed was something I just wasn't willing to live with 
> on a system that used to perform so much better (running RH7.3, hw 
> RAID, and XFS).
>
Glad to know it's not just me. Using ext3 on a 3ware raid 5 of four 
250gb disks. Writes are slow and seem to halt the server until they 
complete, but it's not a server where response time or write speed is 
critical.