ZFS obn FreeBSD hardware model for 48 or 96 sata3 paths...

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
> ZIL will only be useful if you do lots of sync writes.  L2ARC won't
> help write performance.  Heavy write load implies you want mirroring

L2ARC can substantially help write performance in the case where a 
partial block is updated.  It avoids the 'read' part of the 
read/modify/write cycle.  Of course it only helps if the L2ARC is much 
more responsive than the main store.

Bob
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