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Scrub slows to a crawl -- is it SMR causing it?
I have a converted ReadyData5200 as my primary NAS. So, it's got a 2.67GHz quad-core (eight thread) Xeon X3450 and 8GB of dual-channel RAM, which make it pretty snappy. A few days ago, it started t...
This sounds like it might be SMR. The straight mdadm resync should be handled fairly well, since it is sequential. But if you mix in other activity (like the btrfs scrub combined with snapshot deletions), the caching strategies don't work well.
But I have no way to test this, since I don't have an SMR internal drive. Not sure if you've seen this testing: https://www.servethehome.com/wd-red-smr-vs-cmr-tested-avoid-red-smr/
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