But with OpenZFS 2.0, George Amanakis’ L2ARC persistence patch will finally allow the contents of L2ARC to be reloaded across reboots. l2arc_noprefetch—which is on by default—prevents prefetched blocks from landing in L2ARC, these are blocks that ZFS predicted you might need, but you might never end up reading them. More @Wikipedia
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