On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 18:44, Jesse Keating wrote: > The company I work for (Pogo Linux http://www.pogolinux.com) sells 3ware > based systems by the dozens each month, all to people who use them and > use them successfully in production environments. Our products range > from 1u 4drive systems, 2u 9/12 drive systems, and 3u 9/16 drive > systems. (first number is parallel IDE, second number is SATA). All > our customers throughly enjoy their system, as long as they don't use > ext3 on it. ext3 is horribly slow as of late. What do you use instead of ext3? Some other jouranling fs? ext2? Do you fancy ext3 being slow with 1 disk only also? Regards, Peter