On 1 May 2015 at 07:13, Nick Tan wrote:
> Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR disk
> and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send
> would cause the disk to go offline. My guess is that zfs send is too fast
> and fills the drive write ca
On 5/1/15 2:09 PM, Nick Tan wrote:
> On Friday, May 1, 2015, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>
> However since zfs is CoW it should be ok on subsequent rsyncs.
Watch out! SMR disks are *in principle* CoW and ZFS is *in principle*
CoW, but that doesn't mean that they are the same kind of CoW (indeed, I
can
On Friday, May 1, 2015, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> On 01/05/2015 07:13, Nick Tan wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR
>> disk
>> and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send
>> would cause the disk to go offline.
On 01/05/2015 07:13, Nick Tan wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR disk
and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send
would cause the disk to go offline. My guess is that zfs send is too fast
and fills the drive write cac
Hi all,
Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR disk
and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send
would cause the disk to go offline. My guess is that zfs send is too fast
and fills the drive write cache.
I tried again with just rsync and
