L2ARC or not converting from Syno NAS

[starshipeleven]

@myphsto

My existing NAS has a huge number of tiny files. Prior to adding the cache to the Synology I really couldn’t search properly

Could be good to look into zfs special devices too then.

ZFS Metadata Special Device: Z

Introduction ZFS Allocation Classes: It isn’t storage tiers or caching, but gosh darn it, you can really REALLY speed up your zfs pool. From the manual: Special Allocation Class The allocations in the special class are dedicated to specific block types. By default this includes all metadata, the indirect blocks of user data, and any deduplicatio…