From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 14:29:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CE816A4CE for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 14:29:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829BC43D1D for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 14:29:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j42ETMcm005516; Mon, 2 May 2005 09:29:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42763906.1040202@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 09:28:22 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <18110.1115043972@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <18110.1115043972@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/862/Mon May 2 07:24:27 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org cc: Allen cc: Steven Hartland Subject: Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 14:29:24 -0000 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <6.2.1.2.2.20050502094757.037077f0@mail.rfnj.org>, Allen writes: > > > I just want to add: This is why I really would love for us to have > a real RAID3 implemetation. > > RAID3 is not commercially viable because windows cannot use non-512 > byte sectors. > > We can. > > RAID3 would scream for us. What about disk arrays that support RAID3? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------