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Operating Systems Solaris ZFS Mirror versus Hardware Mirror Post 302312232 by Lespaul20 on Thursday 30th of April 2009 05:27:14 PM
Old 04-30-2009
ZFS Mirror versus Hardware Mirror

I've looked a little but haven't found a solid answer, assuming there is one.

What's better, hardware mirroring or ZFS mirroring? Common practice for us was to use the raid controllers on the Sun x86 servers. Now we've been using ZFS mirroring since U6. Any performance difference? Any other issues of one over the other?
 

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RoPkg::Simba::Exceptions(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     RoPkg::Simba::Exceptions(3pm)

NAME
RoPkg::Simba::Exceptions VERSION
0.1.3 DESCRIPTION
Collection of exceptions used by Simba SYNOPSIS
NotHashRef->throw( error => 'No hash reference found', pkg_name => 'RoPkg::Simba' ); DEPENDENCIES
Exception::Class SUBROUTINES
/METHODS The following exceptions are defined: *) NotHashRef - the parameter is not a hash reference *) Mirror::Config - error in configuration of the mirror *) Mirror::Inactive - the mirror is not active *) Mirror::InProgress - the mirror is in progress *) Mirror::Many - the criteria used to select the mirror, matches multiple mirrors *) Command::FileNotFound - command file name was not found DIAGNOSTICS
Unpack the source, and use 'make test' command CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
This module does not use any configuration files or environment variables INCOMPATIBILITIES
None known to the author BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
None known to the author PERL CRITIC
This module is perl critic level 2 compliant AUTHOR
Subredu Manuel <diablo@iasi.roedu.net> LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 Subredu Manuel. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The LICENSE file contains the full text of the license. perl v5.14.2 2006-07-29 RoPkg::Simba::Exceptions(3pm)
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