From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 23 11:04:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C2616A4DD for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:04:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: from mail.firebadger.net (82-69-4-157.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.4.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C08A43D45 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:04:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard@firebadger.net) Received: (qmail 13836 invoked by uid 1011); 23 Jul 2006 11:03:29 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.10 by brian.firebadger.net (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.88.1/1449. spamassassin: 3.1.1. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(192.168.1.10):SA:0(-4.3/5.0):. Processed in 1.081664 secs); 23 Jul 2006 11:03:29 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER-Mail-From: richard@firebadger.net via brian.firebadger.net X-Antivirus-FIREBADGER: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(192.168.1.10):SA:0(-4.3/5.0):. Processed in 1.081664 secs Process 13828) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.10?) (richard@firebadger.net@192.168.1.10) by mail.firebadger.net with SMTP; 23 Jul 2006 11:03:27 -0000 Message-ID: <44C357CA.4040801@firebadger.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:04:42 +0100 From: Richard Collyer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44C26B7A.30200@firebadger.net> <44C27E7B.3070103@firebadger.net> <44C3302A.5070803@firebadger.net> <44C3442C.1020602@firebadger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Slow Write Performance on 3ware controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:04:53 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: >> Would moving the top card to the bottom slot and putting the 9500S-12 in >> the top slot screw with FreeBSD in anyway or will it just accept the >> changes and keep on going? > > I don't see any problem doing that... FreeBSD would only care if it > was the boot drive AND if it also changed the device name in /dev. So > yes... try it... if it changes the /dev name just edit /etc/fstab with > the new settings. Oh yes, had fun with fstab in single user mode yesterday ... I'd put a spelling mistake in /etc/fstab that was fun as it was my first venture into single user mode. Took me 20 mins to realise that only / was mounted and that /use wasn't hence no editors or shells. As this is a production server (its only my home file server) and the card was an ebay special at sub $200 I'm happy with the performance. I may play around with moving them when some more routine maintenance comes up but as I am only writing to it over the 100Mbit network 50MB/sec is more than enough for what I am looking at. Many thanks for the help. Cheers Richard