ZAC / Shingled Magnetic Recording Device Work For The Linux 4.7 Kernel

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ZAC / Shingled Magnetic Recording Device Work For The Linux 4.7 Kernel

23 May 2016, 11:40 AM

Phoronix: ZAC / Shingled Magnetic Recording Device Work For The Linux 4.7 Kernel

Another one of the interesting pull requests this week for the Linux 4.7 merge window is the addition of ZAC (Zone ATA Command) support for Singled Magnetic Recording (SMR) devices...

ZAC / Shingled Magnetic Recording Device Work For The Linux 4.7 Kernel - Phoronix

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23 May 2016, 06:31 PM

Interesting, I thought it was all purely done in HW. But having control on the Linux (any OS) side can be beneficial in cases I believe. Thanks also for the link to the presentation.

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