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Subject: Re: FIO: adding SMR ZONE management commands
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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:57:15 -0600
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To: "Wolford, Jeff (HP Servers - Web Scale performance)" <jeff.wolford@hpe.com>, "Benchmark FIO (fio@vger.kernel.org)" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
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On 10/20/2015 02:30 PM, Wolford, Jeff (HP Servers - Web Scale 
performance) wrote:
> Has any consideration been given to adding support for SMR Management ZONE commands to FIO (obviously in block mode) ?
> (Open, Close, Report, Finish, Reset Write Pointer) ?

Some folks from Seagate expressed interest and desire for working on SMR 
for fio this summer, not sure if anything came of that yet. I'll check 
with them. Personally I haven't looked at it much, I don't even have any 
SMR hw.

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Jens Axboe