本帖最後由 harryytm 於 2020-9-25 12:53 編輯
Problem is it requires uses of free space to temporarily store the update, and do the real update in ...
totalz 發表於 2020-9-25 12:26 
You must get the concept right about SMR disks.
The LBA to sector mapping of an SMR HDD is dynamically managed by firmware just like an SSD, which the sector LBA is emulated by the firmware on the fly and transparent to the OS, the firmware can fool the OS a file is unfragmented, but in fact, it is heavily fragmented internally on the platter.
On the contrary, on a "Normal" PMR or CMR HDD, the LBA to sector mapping is static unless there is a bad sector that the firmware has to remap it to a spare sector. |