On Fri, 18 May 2001 08:34:18 +0200 Simon Matter <Simon Matter
<simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I can not speak about XFS on DELL with AMI MegaRAID but I'm using
> RedHat 6.2 on some machines and they are terrible slow. I also
> downloaded
> the custom kernel from the DELL support page but nothing changed.
> I remember that when I installed the first machine I wanted to call
> DELL support so they replace the machine. But later I found out that
> every machine was the same.
> The only thing I can say is: Don't use any hardware RAID if you want
> to get most perfomance out of your disks. Some years ago hardware did
> improve performance but with the CPU power we have today, software RAID
> is the fastet.
> That's my experience, anyone to comment on this?
>
What happens if the system breaks before the cached blocks are written
away ?
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Keith Matthews
Frequentous Consultants - Linux Services,
Oracle development & database administration
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