Zoned Commands ZBC/ZAC, Shingled SMR drives, ZFS

[grarpamp]

Performance, internals, and alternatives with SMR drives.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast15/technical-sessions/presentation/aghayev
http://sssl.ccs.neu.edu/skylight/

Note that "drive managed" is first gen.
"Host aware" seems the ideal future state for filesystems.
Also the specialization / adaptation of marketed
tech to fitting roles... SMR (archive),  standard HDD
(middle ground), SSD (db/oltp), and RAM (extreme).