`<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Wow, thanks for the insightful explanation (and brilliant ASCII diagram).<br><br>You're right in that my L2ARC hasn't had time to fill up yet, as my system uptime is creeping up to 5 days since the upgrade. Will be nice when the persistent L2ARC feature finally makes it in so that it doesn't take that long to rebuild.<br>
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As for general ZFS design, I think we should either fix the vdev space<br>
stats on L2ARC devices so that they precisely correspond to l2asize, or<br>
get rid of them altogether. Right now, the discrepancy there just<br>
confuses people.<br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888"></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Consider my curiosity sated (and confusion resolved), but I was glad I was able to help raise this point. I'll just ignore the, as you call them, "vdev space stats" for now.</div>
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