Re: Slow Firewire

Mladen,

I'm tempted to:

- blame the hardware
- blame the driver
- blame the OS kernel parms
- blame the filesystem 

I had a similar issue with an x86 server that only had USB 1.0 ports. After installing an add-in 3rd party USB/Firewire PCI-X card, sustained throughput increased to 27 MB/sec to an external USB IDE drive.

A no-name 32 bit USB/Firewire card goes for about $20, including a driver installation CDROM. I have a spare in the office ... when are you heading down to nyc next?

What was the throughput rate for the device prior to installing OCFS?

Paul

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:50:06 +0000, Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have an issue with slow I/O on FireWire drive. Drive throughput, accordin=
> g
> to my measurements, is 500 KB/sec. It's "K", not "M". Other IDE or SCSI dri=
> ves
> have throughput in excess of 20MB/sec. You probably see why am I a bit upse=
> t.
> The FS on the drive is OCFS 2.0. Does anybody else have some experience wit=
> h
> this configuration? It is approximately as nice and pleasant to work with a=
> s=20
> having a root canal done.
>
> --=20
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA

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