[Discuss] what are pros/cons of different (Linux) filesystems for use with SMR (shingled) hard drives?

[Kent Borg]

On 11/13/20 3:35 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SDC15_presentations/smr/HannesReinecke_Strategies_for_running_unmodified_FS_SMR.pdf 


Looks like a mess.


But if disk vendors are selling disk managed SMRs as just "a disk", I 
hope they are doing a decent job of hiding the idiosyncrasies.

At the moment, my link-dest backups (if these are SMR disks or not) are 
working fast…enough for me. Unmounts are fast, too.

-kb