Support for shingled magnetic recording devices

Posted Mar 29, 2014 7:05 UTC (Sat) by Creideiki (subscriber, #38747)
In reply to: Support for shingled magnetic recording devices by giraffedata
Parent article: Support for shingled magnetic recording devices

That's probably my LISP bias showing, assuming everyone is intimately familiar with garbage collection strategies. A copying garbage collector partitions storage into two zones, using only one at a time, and when that one gets full copies only the live data to the other one, leaving the garbage behind to get overwritten in the next cycle.