Actually you are both are right and wrong. The XRaid uses FibreChannel
to communicate to the host machine(s). The Raid controller is a
FibreChannel controller. After that there is a FibreChannel to UltraATA
conversion for each drive, separate ATA bus for each drive.
What I am curious about is if this setup gets around ATA fsync problems,
where the drive reports the write before it is actually performed.
Josh Berkus wrote:
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>>the XServe/XRaid comes with FibreChannel
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>I stand corrected. That should help things some; it makes it more of a small
>tradeoff between performance and storage size for the drives.
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