Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu + RAID5

["Will Dyson" <will.dyson@gmail.com>]

On 9/22/06, Randy Schmidt <x@altorg.com> wrote:
> I was able to create a reiserfs filesystem on it by leaving it
> overnight, and like someone said, it took forever to mount, but it's
> there. Is there any downside to keeping reiserfs? I read a little
> about it and apparently it's not as good if the system crashes? The
> journaling isn't there or isn't as good?

The ext3 vs reiserfs tradeoffs are relatively subtle. I use each on
some of my systems.

It seems to me the much bigger issue is that you still have a huge
performance problem using the hpt374 driver. Try the following command
to see what kind of performance you are getting from your array:

time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 > [some location on array]

That will write 100 MB to the drive and tell you how long it took, and
from there you can easily figure out the MB/s.

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Will Dyson
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