SMRs better as OSDs than block devices?

Posted Mar 21, 2015 7:33 UTC (Sat) by CChittleborough (subscriber, #60775)
Parent article: Filesystem support for SMR devices

If SMR drives are hard for existing filesystems to handle, maybe they should use a higher-level interface than block I/O? The SCSI object-storage device standard (OSD; see http://lwn.net/Articles/305740/) might do the job, or at least provide a starting point.

In other words, maybe SMR drives should be device-managed instead of host-managed?