Hi guys, Recently in a discussion online, i discussed the new Seagate 8TB SMR disks in combination with ZFS. A big point that was undecided was: Can a SLOG help during rebuild of a bit SMR disk based array?
I know it's more risky to use the SLOG for resilver activities, but rebuilding sequentially could benefit these disks insanely. The problem with these disks is that under heavy load, the disk because very slow on random writes because of the SMR rewrites the disk has to do. Can anyone answer whether it's currently beneficial to have a SLOG on an SMR disk array, or answer whether it's easy to adapt the code a bit to make this happen? Thanks all!
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