Hi Ric, Today Ric Wheeler wrote: [...] > I assume that you have a hardware RAID card, not an external array? If you do > have an array (IBM Shark, EMC box, etc) with battery backed internal cache, > then you should get better than SSD speeds from one of its LUNs assuming your > cache is large enough ;-) It is a hwraid card with batttery backed cache (areca). I think the problem with the built in cache is that the raid manages it without knowing about the structure of the filesystem. At the bottom of it it is strong argument for zfs :-) still wondering what happens when ext3 looses a journal. cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch tobi@xxxxxxxxxx ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users