On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:
> XFS has good performance, but I can't get over how many system failure
> corruption reports I hear about it. In any case, there's no reason this
> system shouldn't perform fine on ext3.
For simple testing you can take the file system out of the equation by
just using dd to / from the raw partition. I have a feeling this HP
RAID controller is just a low end piece o crap is the problem. I seem
to remember references to the P800 series controller being quite a bit
better than this one. But that was a while back.