I am trying to build a box that can handle streaming 2Gbps to disk for sustained periods of time. I benchmarked a few different file systems and wanted to share the results. Software: 2.6.7 + my networking patches (my modules were not loaded, should not matter) Fedora Core 2 fully up-to-date. Latest 3w-9xxxx driver from their web site. Hardware: dual 2.8 Xeon, 1GB RAM, 40GB IDE OS hard drive 2 3ware 9500 controllers with 6 WD 7200 RPM 250GB SATA disks each (Only one of the controllers was used for these tests, though initial testing shows that when both are used, each runs as fast as when only a single controller is used) The 9500 controllers are set up for raid-0 with 64k stripes. Motherboard: Tyan S2726 (Thunder i7501 Xtreme) General test procedure: mkfs.XXX /dev/sda1 (Default arguments only) mount [sda1] run tiobench umount [sda1] NOTE: I hear there is a patch to fix the crummy ext3 performance when using multiple threads: I have not applied this patch. jfs and xfs both seem superior performers, so I probably will not use ext3. I am new to this type of thing, so suggestions are welcome. I can also run other tests if someone has suggestions or results they would like to see. Enjoy, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com