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Subject: Re: Options for zfs inside a VM backed by zfs on the host
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let me ask a related question: i'm using FFS in the guest, zvol on the
host. should i be telling my guest kernel to not bother with an FFS
buffer cache at all, or to use a smaller one, or what?