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Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 by zzzcpan on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:53AM (#18337912)
You probably mean log structured, not copy on write. CoW doesn't help make writes sequential, unlike log structured filesystems.
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Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 by aidenn0 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:20PM (#18339009)
log-structured is a special-case of CoW; specifically it's CoW where the allocation strategy is sequential blocks.
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