L2ARC

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Daniel Bethe

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Feb 12, 2012, 9:06:48 AM2/12/12
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Hi guys.  Do we have L2ARC support?  I haven't ever heard much discussion about it.

I got some syntax from a web site, for adding L2ARC to my existing pool which is named 'big'.

hossenfeffer:~ dtm$ zpool add big cache /dev/rdisk0s3
cannot open 'cache': no such device in /dev
must be a full path or shorthand device name
hossenfeffer:~ dtm$ 

Did I do something wrong or is this impossible?  I don't even know if it'd really help; I just had a spare SSD and thought I'd try it.

Alex Blewitt

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Feb 12, 2012, 9:50:47 AM2/12/12
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On 12 Feb 2012, at 14:06, Daniel Bethe <d...@smuckola.org> wrote:

> Hi guys. Do we have L2ARC support? I haven't ever heard much discussion about it.

No, cache device support came out in pool version 10 which is 2 ahead of current MacZFS. I was working on an experimental b77 merge but this had unresolved issues at the time of Z410's announcement and I haven't done any work on it since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

Daniel Bethe

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Feb 12, 2012, 10:01:16 AM2/12/12
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> No, cache device support came out in pool version 10 which is 2 ahead of current
> MacZFS. I was working on an experimental b77 merge but this had unresolved
> issues at the time of Z410's announcement and I haven't done any work on
> it since.


Oh yeah I forgot to look up a list of zpool version features.  So I guess maybe 10a286 has it, with its zpool version 11.  Oh well, it's not slow anyway and there are different raidz and mirror configurations if a person wants even more speed.  I had L2ARC listed in the FAQ as a supported feature, so I just corrected that.

We'll await the appearance of some more source code, then!

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