On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 15:30:37 +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote: > Right On Commander! > > Now here is hoping the random-write issues with OpenZFS are solved...
Well, this is of course only the underlying infrastructure for SMR drives. As for the random write issues with ZFS (or rather sequential I/O going out in random order), we (Spectra) are working on that in general. The original plan was to do full SMR support for ZFS, but it looks like we may get good enough write performance with Drive Managed drives by just making writes from ZFS to drives more sequential rather than going for full Host Aware and Host Managed support. If that turns out that performance isn't good enough after all, then we'll have to put in the effort to put Host Aware support at least into ZFS. That's why I said (in the commit message) that I don't know of anyone working on using the SMR infrastructure for UFS or ZFS. Now that the plumbing is in place in CAM and GEOM, it is possible at the filesystem level if someone wants to do the work. Ken -- Kenneth Merry k...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
