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Table 1–9

Resulting Cache Policies and ECB Status (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cache Module Status

 

Cache Policy

 

 

 

 

 

Cache A

Cache B

 

Unmirrored Cache

Mirrored Cache

 

 

 

 

 

Less than

At least

 

Data loss: No.

Data loss: No.

50%

50%

 

Cache policy: Controller A supports

Cache policy: Both controllers continue

charged

charged

 

 

write-through caching only;

to support write-back caching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

controller B supports write-back

Failover: No.

 

 

 

caching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Failover: In transparent failover, all

 

 

 

 

units failover to controller B.

 

 

 

 

In multiple-bus failover with host-

 

 

 

 

assist, only those units that use

 

 

 

 

write-back caching, such as

 

 

 

 

RAIDsets and mirrorsets, failover to

 

 

 

 

controller B.

 

 

 

 

In single-controller configurations,

 

 

 

 

the controller only provides write-

 

 

 

 

through caching to its units.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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