"Martin K. Petersen" schrieb:
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> >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> Simon> You're right. But on this list we have all those people using
> Simon> big disks and raid volumes. So if the problem was somehow
> Simon> XFS/SoftRAID related, where could I ask.
>
> It is perfectly fine to ask questions like that here.
>
> FWIW, almost all the XFS corruption bugs (with RAID or otherwise) I've
> seen so far have been incorrect IDE hdparm tuning or bad cabling.
That's the problem, I guess. The RH tuned 2.4 kernels (I didn't test
linus kernels) do IDE tuning without using hdparm. I can say the Promise
controller performs very good. With a RAID0 on all four disks I get mor
than 120MB/sec throughput (yes, the file is big enough to not use
caching). It's was also very fast on i820 chipset but it seems not to be
reliable. FYI I didn't touch hdparm. I'm just giving up on using
multiple IDE disks with kernel 2.4. Sad but no choice.
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> Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
> mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com/
> SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
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