Re: ZFS pool balance and performance

From: void <void_at_f-m.fm>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:30:50 UTC 
On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 10:41:40AM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
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>How can I tell if any of these are SMR?  And wouldn’t they all be?  I
>suppose like Frank notes, I can’t be sure that didn’t happen.

Find the device in dmesg or /dev or zpool status -v (might not be there
in the latter, might just be the serial number of the device.

Then do (in my own instance it was ada1) 

# smartctl -x /dev/ada1 | ug SMR
      5: Model Family:     Seagate Archive HDD (SMR)

SMR seems to be indicated at the top of smartctl output.
This is the only working SMR drive i have so am not sure if other
makes put it elsewhere.
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