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A comment on WD Red DM-SMR Update: 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS Issues.

Re:WD Red DM-SMR Update: 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS I... by williesleg on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:10PM (#23531663)
So tired of seeing this. The problem is you don't want to do ANY striping on ANY SMR drives. It's not a ZFS problem. It's not a SMR problem. It's STRIPING on SMR. PERIOD.

Once upon a time people knew what they were talking about. Now everybody's an EXPERT NPC.

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Re:WD Red DM-SMR Update: 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS I... by effie on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:38AM (#23538409)
Could you explain why? Isn't the problem rather in the fact the filesystem does not know it is SMR and does not have a capability to work with such device optimally?
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