Re: Zoned Commands ZBC/ZAC, Shingled SMR drives, ZFS

2015-03-24 Thread Shehbaz Jaffer
it for a bit more at $300. > ___ > freebsd...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Shehbaz Jaffer MTS | Advanced Technology Group | NetApp __

Re: Zoned Commands ZBC/ZAC, Shingled SMR drives, ZFS

2015-03-24 Thread Shehbaz Jaffer
> 'host aware' or 'host managed' SMR drives open the real possibilities for use under ZFS and other file systems. Agreed. Probably RAID is not the way to go then. In host managed SMR drives one could use other form of resiliency (Erasure Codes) rather than RAID. We do not rebuild the whole disk bu