Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:04:13 -0800 | From | Lawrence Walton <> | Subject | Re: 3ware 9550SX problems - mke2fs incredibly slow writing last third of inode tables |
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Florian Weimer [fw@deneb.enyo.de] wrote: > * Alex Bligh: > > > All seems to go well until I try and do mke2fs. This appears to work, > > and tries to write the inode tables. However, at (about) 3400 inodes > > (of 11176), it slows to a crawl, writing one table every 10 seconds. > > strace shows it is still running, and no errors are being reported. > > However, it seems very sick. > > In my experience, the 3ware SATA controllers which are not NCQ-capable > have very, very lousy write performance with some drives, unless you > enable the write cache (which is, of course, a bit dangerous without > UPS or battery backup on the controller). > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Not to sound like the a 3ware chearleader, but this card does support NCQ. -- *--* Mail: lawrence@otak.com *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://the-penguin.otak.com/~lawrence -------------------------------------- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -
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