On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Sage Weil <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016, Giridhar Yasa wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Sage Weil <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Shehbaz Jaffer wrote: >> > >> > > 2) Will scope of project be to build an allocator on a simulator for >> > > SMR Drives? Or will I get actual HDDs to work with? In case of >> > > simulators, will the project involve building a simulator on disksim? >> > >> > I seem to remember hearing something about a dm module that simulated SMR, >> > but I'm not sure. We may also be able to get some SMR disks to play >> > with--I'll reach out to our drive vendor friends. >> >> Would that be https://github.com/hgst/libzbc from HGST? > > Yes. > > I'm not sure about a disk simulator or actual drive availability, > though. libzbc has an emulation mode that can use files or block devices to emulate SMR disk zones. Giridhar -- Giridhar Yasa | Flipkart Engineering | http://www.flipkart.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
