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Subject: Re: ZFS Optimizing for large directories and MANY files
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On 6/25/2019 2:19 PM, mike tancsa wrote:
> on SSDs.  Should I bother with an NVME drive for L2ARC caching ?  On my
> test box, I can sort of approximate how much RAM I need for metadata
> (11G it seems), is there a better programatic way to find that value out ?


Looks like zdb gives it

zdb -d <dataset>

    ---Mike