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Subject: Re: ZFS obn FreeBSD hardware model for 48 or 96 sata3 paths...
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>
> It's too bad, because it would be a nice setup, ordered from fastert to
> slowest:  ARC for metadata, L2ARC for file data, pool for permanent storage.

L2ARC has extreme bandwidth limitations as compared with RAM.  Be 
careful what you wish for.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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