Is anyone working on SMR support for ZFS?

I put support into FreeBSD for SMR drives from the block layer (GEOM) through 
the SCSI layer (CAM):

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=300207 
<https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=300207>

So far, no filesystems in the FreeBSD tree are using the SMR support.

It looks like there are Linux folks working on SMR support:

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/lemoal-Linux-SMR-vault-2017.pdf
 
<http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/lemoal-Linux-SMR-vault-2017.pdf>

We (Spectra Logic) are considering starting work on supporting Host Aware and 
Host Managed SMR drives in ZFS, and we’d rather collaborate with other folks 
who are interested instead of duplicating the effort.

Thanks,

Ken
— 
Ken Merry
[email protected]




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