From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m7LFw65h028013 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:58:06 -0700 Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 38B933BBFCC for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id Iyfd4XvKWcYAy1zq for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:59:25 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: XFS vs Elevators (was Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system) Message-ID: <20080821155925.GI5706@disturbed> References: <293210.50030.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <293210.50030.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Martin Knoblauch Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:05:21AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > just curious - which CCISS controller and and what kind of disk configuration are you using. Smart Array 5300, using a single 36GB 10krpm U3SCSI disk. Looks like most of the problems were caused by the firmware, and are not driver related. An upgrade to a newer (2002!) firmware appears to have fixed the worst of the problems. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com