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Shingled magnetic recording (SMR)

Acceptable storage systems: F2FS, exFAT, CEPH, RAID1
Unacceptable: RAID 5 etc, NTFS, Ext4, …

How to format 8TB SMR Drive

mkfs.f2fs -s64 -o0 -t0 -a0 /dev/sda1
mount -t f2fs -onoinline_data,noatime,flush_merge,no_heap,extent_cache,noacl,active_logs=2 /dev/sda1 /mnt


or if this drive identify as a host-aware zoned device

mkfs.f2fs -fm /dev/sda1
mount -t f2fs -onoinline_data,discard,noatime,flush_merge,no_heap,extent_cache,noacl,active_logs=2 /dev/sda1 /mnt
storage/smr.1707917316.txt.gz · Last modified: 2024/02/14 14:28 by Jan Forman