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What performance anomalies?@neo, I still wouldn't Capacity is great, but the performance anomalies are terrifying.
Give it another generation.
Well anything but sequential writes causes a re-write of a 256MB block due to the SMR patterning... This will create a pause on inflow while the re-write is done.What performance anomalies?
It won't matter if the filesystem is not zone aware and aligned properly to the zoning ...is there a way to use a 256mb allocation unit?(I know i don't see this in windows by default) and would that help any
Unfortunatly I have to live in the windows world currently, I was thinking about ReFS on Server 2012 for one of our tennats.It won't matter if the filesystem is not zone aware and aligned properly to the zoning ...
EXT4 can be made zone aware btw...
If you can't even do linux network storage stick to non-SMR unless you do purely sequential writes.Unfortunatly I have to live in the windows world currently, I was thinking about ReFS on Server 2012 for one of our tennats.
Me personally? yes I can, the people who have to manage it after I set it up? not happening and I don't need the support headache, hopefully SMR seems more mainstream support from both the raid controller vendors and microsoft next year.If you can't even do linux network storage stick to non-SMR unless you do purely sequential writes.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/SMR-LinuxConUSA-2014.pdfInteresting info Patriot. Zone Aware filesystems, I am wondering if this might be a good use-case for my Syno. Im on 5x4TB and out of space. Could put 4 of these in RAID5 and almost double capacity and put a 1TB SDD as a caching tier in front of it.