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Filesystem support for SMR devices

Filesystem support for SMR devices

Posted Mar 23, 2015 2:00 UTC (Mon) by naptastic (guest, #60139)
Parent article: Filesystem support for SMR devices

What about something like logfs, where everything is always sequential anyway? Only use open zones to track pointer updates, and periodically garbage-collect space that's no longer actually in use.

We could write a utility to display garbage collection progress on the screen with little blue and green boxes, like the old defrag tools...


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