On 01 August, 2012 - opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris sent me these 1,8K 
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> > From: Sa??o Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:56 AM
> > 
> > On 08/01/2012 03:35 PM, opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris wrote:
> > >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
> > >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov
> > >>
> > >> Availability of the DDT is IMHO crucial to a deduped pool, so
> > >> I won't be surprised to see it forced to triple copies.
> > >
> > > IMHO, the more important thing for dedup moving forward is to create an
> > option to dedicate a fast device (SSD or whatever) to the DDT.  So all those
> > little random IO operations never hit the rusty side of the pool.
> > 
> > That's something you can already do with an L2ARC. In the future I plan
> > on investigating implementing a set of more fine-grained ARC and L2ARC
> > policy tuning parameters that would give more control into the hands of
> > admins over how the ARC/L2ARC cache is used.
> 
> L2ARC is a read cache.  Hence the "R" and "C" in "L2ARC."

"Adaptive Replacement Cache", right.

> This means two major things:
> #1  Writes don't benefit, 
> and
> #2  There's no way to load the whole DDT into the cache anyway.  So you're 
> guaranteed to have performance degradation with the dedup.
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/Tomas
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