Performance, internals, and alternatives with SMR drives. https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast15/technical-sessions/presentation/aghayev http://sssl.ccs.neu.edu/skylight/
Note that "drive managed" is first gen. "Host aware" seems the ideal future state for filesystems. Also the specialization / adaptation of marketed tech to fitting roles... SMR (archive), standard HDD (middle ground), SSD (db/oltp), and RAM (extreme). _______________________________________________ developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-zfs.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
