> > If you are looking into using the 3Ware controllers watch the following: > The 64xx controllers are underpowered and should better not be used in > raid 5 mode. > The 74xx controllers seem to be good and should be fine with raid5 but > note that raid5 will always have slow write speeds. > Is there a way to minimize the write penalty using both XFS and LVM with RAID 5? Thanks, Anthony > Software raid can be used if you need a lot of speed _and_ redundancy. > > Cheers > Seth _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html