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So we could make the build process pause until the drive resumed responding, or have the ZFS/whatever filesystem drivers recognize the difference between a dead

So we could make the build process pause until the drive resumed responding, or have the ZFS/whatever filesystem drivers recognize the difference between a dead drive and an SMR drive that's working on its cache? I'd want the drive statistics or benchmarks to include a complete rebuild process, though.

ubercow13 7y ago
Yeah, it does seem like maybe there could be improvements on the filesystem/RAID software side to better support these drives. If only they were labelled properly as SMR so that the filesystem devs could buy one to test with.