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From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 09:14:19 +0000
To: Artem Belevich <fbsdlist@src.cx>
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Subject: Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks
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On 7 Jan 2011, at 17:30, Artem Belevich <fbsdlist@src.cx> wrote:
> One way to get specific ratio for *your* pool would be to collect
> record size statistics from your pool using "zdb -L -b <pool>" and
> then calculate L2ARC:ARC ratio based on average record size. I'm not
> sure, though whether L2ARC stores records in compressed or
> uncompressed form.

Can someone point me to a reference describing the various zfs caches availa=
ble? What's the arc and zil? Ive been running some zfs for a few years now, a=
nd must have missed thus entire subject :/.

Joe=