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From: "Anthony W. Marino" <anthony@AWMObjects.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] System Suggestions
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Date: Thu Mar  7 04:24:01 2002
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To: Stuart Levy <slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, Petro <petro@auctionwatch.com>
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On Wednesday 06 March 2002 11:15 pm, Stuart Levy wrote:
> <petro@auctionwatch.com> wrote:
> >   We have 10 of the 3ware cards, and while the drive is GPLd and in
> >   the kernel, we have not been satisfied with the stability of the
> >   system
>
> A 3ware 7850 here  (8 drive hw RAID5) performed erratically
> until I got their latest .016 driver, which seems to be in
> the 2.4.18 kernel too.  The earlier .010 driver in 2.4.<=17
> would sometimes get into a low-performance (~15MB/sec) mode,
> but the .016 driver has been doing very well.  3ware tech support
> have been very responsive too.  Based on a few weeks' experience,
> I'd recommend them.
>
>    Stuart Levy, slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Are you, too, using XFS and LVM with your 3Ware/RAID5 config?  
Thank You!
Anthony