Seagate Archive HDD

Xin Li delphij at delphij.net
Fri Mar 27 03:38:37 UTC 2015


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On 3/26/15 17:58, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> ... all the talk about this stuff, and yet noone's talked about
> how ZFS is supposed to be append only, and boy wouldn't that be
> awesome. :)

It doesn't overwrite existing data with the assumption that a, let's
say, 4K-native drive doesn't have a 1MB "band" when writing.

I hope the "journal" would be helpful for this assuming it is on
non-volatile medium...

Cheers,
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