--- Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Take your 3ware HW-raid, do a dd (read or write) to > the device and see it > being very quick (because it can fit all the data > into its cache as it > either reads or writes), then put a filesystem on it > and do writes there, > especially journaled writes, and see write speed go > down to 1/10 or so. How does non-cached performance tend to compare? Andrew ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html