[OpenIndiana-discuss] SMR disks

Nick Tan nick.tan at gmail.com
Fri May 1 06:13:39 UTC 2015


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 this worked fine.

Nick


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