raid controller recommendation

[Peter Peltonen]

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