From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3b1.westend.com (mail3b.westend.com [212.117.79.78]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l35AoCfB013090 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 03:50:13 -0700 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:50:06 +0200 From: Thomas Kaehn Subject: Re: Strange delete performance using XFS Message-ID: <20070405105005.GF2759@mail3b.westend.com> References: <20070404130535.GE18320@mail3b.westend.com> <20070404154523.GA20096@tuatara.stupidest.org> <20070405072803.GB2759@mail3b.westend.com> <20070405090333.GE2759@mail3b.westend.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Chris Wedgwood , xfs@oss.sgi.com Hi Justin, On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:21:43AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >So there is no improvement for a single disk. > > > What kind of disks are you using? Maybe just slow disks?? I am using the following disks: http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=233 When disabling write barriers delete times are OK. I think that the 3ware RAID controller could have a problem with it. I'll try to contact 3ware in order to come to know if this feature is supported or not. Additionally I am going to try out some advices presented in the 3ware knowledge base. Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Kähn WESTEND GmbH | Internet-Business-Provider Technik CISCO Systems Partner - Authorized Reseller Im Süsterfeld 6 Tel 0241/701333-18 tk@westend.com D-52072 Aachen Fax 0241/911879 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Die Gesellschaft ist eingetragen im Handelsregister Aachen unter HRB 7608 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Neugebauer, Thomas Heller, Michael Kolb