From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262507AbTJGQl4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:41:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262508AbTJGQl4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:41:56 -0400 Received: from 64-60-248-67.cust.telepacific.net ([64.60.248.67]:40328 "EHLO mx.rackable.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262507AbTJGQlz (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:41:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3F82EB1A.8030609@rackable.com> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:34:34 -0700 From: Samuel Flory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk CC: Thomas Horsten , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.4.XX] Silicon Image/CMD Medley Software RAID References: <8393446.1065535371042.JavaMail.www@wwinf3002> In-Reply-To: <8393446.1065535371042.JavaMail.www@wwinf3002> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Oct 2003 16:41:53.0638 (UTC) FILETIME=[E9F0B860:01C38CF1] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk wrote: > > so horrendously slow, without even using any of its RAID functions (which > would be slow understandably as they are software RAID)? There isn't any reason for software raid to be slower than hardware raid. On the 3ware ide raid controller. Linux software raid 5 is easily x2 as fast as hardware raid 5 on the same controller. -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory