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• loeg 9y ago
  Note that the conclusion of that article is that developers are thinking about it, not that it is solved in Linux. Linux may detect SMR drives and query them for zone information, but I don't believe ext4 or any other Linux filesystem works particularly well on them. I would love to be shown otherwise, though. > Reinecke wondered if the host-managed SMR drives would actually sell. Petersen piled on, noting that the flash-device makers had made lots of requests for extra code to support their devices, but that eventually all of those requests disappeared when those types of devices didn't sell. Reinecke's conclusion was that it may not make a lot sense to try to make an existing filesystem work for host-managed SMR drives. Edit: wmf points out that F2FS works reasonably well[0], until you have to do a garbage collection pass. [0]: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/lemoal-Linux-SMR-vault-2017.pdf http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...