On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:07:48AM +0000, Pete French wrote:
> I have often wondered if ZFS is more aggressive with discs, because until
> very recently any solid state drive I have used ZFS on broke very quicky. ...

  I've always wondered if ZFS (and other snapshotting file systems) would help
kill SSD disks by locking up blocks longer than other filesystems might.  For
example, I've got snapshot-backups going back, say, a year then those blocks
that haven't changed aren't going back into the pool to be rewritten (and
perhaps favored because of low write-cycle count).  As the disk fills up, the
blocks that aren't locked up get reused more and more, leading to extra wear
on them.  Eventually one of those will get to the point of erroring out.

  Personally, I just size generously but that isn't always an option for
everybody.
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