Re: [List] Re: ZFS - reboot during resilver doesn't work

On 9/8/25 16:33, David Christensen wrote:
> I assume there are good use-cases for SMR drives, but I am not using
> them.


On 9/9/25 03:39, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> For the curious, these are 2TB Seagate Barracudas (which used to be
> good drives), one first generation and one latest generation. They
> were only 900Gb full, although I don't think that would affect the
> re-silver speed (only the time). They're used for backing up
> datasets, not intended for performance. I certainly wouldn't want
> SMR on a database (or as backing store for a Windoze VM).


The SMR disk should be a good fit for:

1.  Windows System Image Backup.  It appears that each partition is 
mostly stored in a single large *.vhdx file.

2.  Windows Backup and Restore (Windows 7).  It appears that each backup 
set is mostly composed of many 100~200 MB *.zip files.


David