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Cc: adam radford <aradford@gmail.com>, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Functional RAID controller?
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Barrett Lyon wrote:
>> In fairness, if you care about network bandwidth more than stability,
>> HEAD is the place to be. On my hardware if_mxge can get 9.3Gbps and
>> if_cxgb can get full line rate. if_mxge isn't even in RELENG_6 and
>> if_cxgb performance is at least 25% worse on RELENG_6.
> 
> I can concur, that's why there is so much pressure to use HEAD, it's a 
> substantial difference and all the network performance is found in HEAD, 
> but it's useless if my disk arrays crash after writing some logs.  :)

write them to a 6.2 machine using NFS :-)

> 
> -Barrett
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