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ZFS Zil and L2ARC Cache Expplained
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Chapters
00:00 ZFS Metadata VDEV
02:00 ZFS Pool Layouts and Your Data
07:04 Testing Performance Before
09:08 Adding Metadata VDEV
10:04 Testing Performance After ZFS Rewrite
11:45 ZFS Special Small Block Size