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BTRFS can handle zoned disks. The doc claims that it was a natural fit with the way BTRFS works. The problem is that you cannot buy host managed zoned disks.
by bombela 2y ago
BTRFS can handle zoned disks. The doc claims that it was a natural fit with the way BTRFS works.
The problem is that you cannot buy host managed zoned disks.
- rwmj 2y agoWD was pushing for this standard a few years back: https://www.westerndigital.com/company/innovation/zoned-storage https://www.westerndigital.com/company/innovation/zoned-stor... I'm not sure what happened to it / whether it was successful or not.
- Joe_Cool 2y agoI think they also sold HA-SMR (host aware SMR, a mix of drive managed and host managed) drives to datacenters but I couldn't find any recent news so I guess those aren't that common.