Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: 3ware 9550SX problems - mke2fs incredibly slow writing last third of inode tables | Date | Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:45:19 +0100 |
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* 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/
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