On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > been meaningless for some time). When the disk runs out of places to > write the good data, it throws a permanent write error back to the OS > and you have a really bad day. The only difference in this with SSDs is > the amount of storage dedicated to this (be scared?).
I'm guessing that "spare space management" is typically handled entirely within the drive and is not exposed as an API, right? In other words, you can't say to the drive "you say you're out of spare space, but let's take this space here that I'm not using and use those as new spare space so I can keep using this drive with a reduced capacity."
