On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 02:35:35PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

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> > but now i am thinking, with smr, the drive could pseudo-brick,
> 
> Last I heard, SMR drives aren't significantly less reliable than CMR, so
> I'm not sure you should base your decision on that.  Of course, you'll
> want to keep backups (unless that drive is the backup for others,
> obviously).

Agreed. They are designed for another use-case. I don't know whether there
are file systems which work nicely with SMR.

Cheers
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t

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