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Last time I stapled l2arc onto a hard drive zfs it was still super slow to do things like ls large directories and the l2arc never filled more than a couple gigabytes.

Maybe it works better now?



It’s gotten smarter, and among other things no longer erases the cache on reboot.

But for that specific case you should use a metadata vdev. Just make sure it’s mirrored!




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