Re: 3ware - Itanium compatible drivers?

[Walt H <waltabbyh@comcast.net>]

I have a server at work that uses a six disk software raid 5 setup. I 
use version 2 logging and it's worked pretty well so far. Reads and 
writes are excellent, with creates/deletes lagging somewhat (as 
expected). If I would have used an external log, I'm sure delete 
performance would be fine, but for our intended use of the server it's 
more than adequate as-is. From my experience, software md raid with XFS 
works great.

-Walt

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> My company is building up an Itanium based Redhat box that needs 1 TB of storage.
> 
> They have asked me what the choices are.
> 
> I have been very impressed with 3ware cards in Pentium systems.
> 
> Does anyone know if the 3ware x86 drivers work at all in an Itanium?
> 
> Or have any thoughts about a pure software Raid?
> 
> I know the md driver can do Raid 1, can it do Raid 5?
> 
> Thanks
> Greg Freemyer
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