From: Goetz Bock <bock@blacknet.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Logical Volume max-size?
Date: Mon Nov 19 08:25:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011119152703.A28540@golem.blacknet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufa8zd2oo6t.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu>; from tibbs@math.uh.edu on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:00:42AM -0600
On Mon, Nov 19 '01 at 08:00, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> GB> While the cards may be cool, their raid 5 implementation sucks
> GB> like hell. slow like a slug, and if it should ever become dirty
> GB> the system is unuseable for about 6 hours.
> Don't run the 6000-series cards in RAID5 mode; they weren't designed
I figured this out the hard way. I asked some 3ware person whether I
could use a 6800 as a RAID5 controller and was told, that it would work
fine.
> for it. Use software RAID instead; it works just fine and the card is
> still cost-effective as an 8-channel IDE controller.
This is true.
> What you say is blatantly untrue for the 7000-series cards; the 7850
> should be even faster.
As an owner of two 6800 this does not help me at all :-(, but hey they
got better, what is cool.
> Why the proliferation of 3ware misinformation on this list lately?
It was only me who disappointed by the 6xxx series RAID5 performance
Goetz.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-19 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-18 0:36 [linux-lvm] Logical Volume max-size? Petro
2001-11-18 0:47 ` mitch
2001-11-18 0:50 ` Sean Oh
2001-11-18 1:09 ` Petro
2001-11-18 1:14 ` Benjamin Reed
2001-11-18 1:34 ` Petro
2001-11-18 12:59 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2001-11-19 3:55 ` Goetz Bock
2001-11-19 7:59 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2001-11-19 8:25 ` Goetz Bock [this message]
2001-11-19 12:54 ` [linux-lvm] 3Ware [OT] (was: Logical Volume max-size?) Benjamin Scott
2001-11-19 13:02 ` Lars O. Grobe
2001-11-19 13:06 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2001-11-19 13:13 ` [linux-lvm] Logical Volume max-size? Petro
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