From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:39:34 -0700
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.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.
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