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    Decided on the majority of my spec, now I need to make choices about SLOG and L2ARC

    I'm putting together a new FreeNAS build. The main hardware issue left is SLOG/L2ARC to get the best chance of good performance/reliability. Hardware - Xeon E5-1620 v3 (4 core, 3.5 GHz+ as I might heavily use CIFS or other single-thread services) 32GB RDIMM 2400 (Amazon have an insanely good...
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    Configuring L2ARC to only cache certain directories

    In configuring my hypothetical server, I have a few questions about the ARC/L2ARC. Our use-case is a little odd. We have a directory full of many small files, new batches of which are generated at the beginning of every month. When doing data analysis, we want to be able to access this month's...
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