On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:26:47PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Jack Kielsmeier wrote:
> >
> >With L2arc, no such redundancy is needed. So, with a $100 SSD, if  
> >you can get 8x the performance out of your dedup'd dataset, and you  
> >don't have to worry about "what if the device fails", I'd call that  
> >an awesome investment.
> 
> AFAIK, the L2ARC is not persistent.

Correct, until this CR is fixed:

        6662467 L2ARC content to survive reboots
        http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6662467

Please don't ask for a specific ETA - I can't give one yet.

Brendan

> This is not much of a problem for  
> servers,
> which tend to stay up for long periods of time.
> 
> Upon reboot, there will be a lot of random reads as the DTT is reloaded.
>  -- richard
> 
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Brendan Gregg, Sun Microsystems Fishworks.    http://blogs.sun.com/brendan
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