Question among geeks.
Is there any way to use an SMR HDD for Proxmox backups with relatively decent speed?
Here's what I've tried so far:
Mount options in fstab:
- defaults,noatime,nodiratime,nofail
Tests performed:
BTRFS: Starts off very well with a sustained 100MB/s, but at 200 gigabytes it drops to 3/4 MB/s.
XFS: Starts with a sustained 10/15MB/s and at 200 gigabytes ends up dropping to 3/4MB/s.
EXT4: Starts and ends with 3/4MB/s.
I'm ruling out NILFS2 because I don't consider it mature enough.
SMR technology is fucking shit.
