> Hi Marcel, thanks for chiming in. > >> No. SMR won't be okay. There is no way to resilver a SMR disk in >> reasonable time.
Disregard my previous comment. I see now that resilvering, even on a brand new SMR-drive into a “simple” mirror, is a bad news situation. Additionally, using said drives for backups or storing large media files also doesn’t work well, as the long-sustained write operations exhaust internal caches and then hit the SMR-wall. Lastly, regarding having super large L2ARC, I understand now that tables needed to support an L2ARC that large would exhaust RAM. I just returned a pile of SMR disks. Apologize for the noise. K. ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T1d25146fb4ce0f44-M95d16e42fc94a0f6405298a1 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
