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On 16/06/20 10:04, Dale wrote: |
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> I might add, I don't have LVM on that drive. I read it does not work |
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> well with LVM, RAID etc as you say. Most likely, that drive will always |
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> be a external drive for backups or something. If it ever finds itself |
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> on the OS or /home, it'll be a last resort. |
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LVM it's probably fine with. Raid, MUCH less so. What you need to make |
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sure does NOT happen is a lot of random writes. That might make deleting |
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an lvm snapshot slightly painful ... |
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But adding a SMR drive to an existing ZFS raid is a guarantee for pain. |
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I don't know why, but "resilvering" causes a lot of random writes. I |
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don't think md-raid behaves this way. |
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But it's the very nature of raid that, as soon as something goes wrong |
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and a drive needs replacing, everything is going to get hammered. And |
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SMR drives don't take kindly to being hammered ... :-) |
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Even in normal use, a SMR drive is going to cause grief if it's not |
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handled carefully. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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