ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 03:45:04PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Daniel Kalchev, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> You should also know that having large L2ARC requires that you also
> have larger ARC, because there are data pointers in the ARC that
> point to the L2ARC data. Someone will do good to the community to
> publish some reasonable estimates of the memory needs, so that
> people do not end up with large but unusable L2ARC setups.

Estimates I've read in the past are that L2ARC consumes ARC space at
around 1-2%.


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