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Description
Currently, ZimaOS does not support Enterprise Host-Managed SMR (HM-SMR) hard drives, such as the Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC620/HC650 series. While these drives are becoming highly popular in the NAS community for high-density cold storage due to their cost-effectiveness, they require the kernel to be compiled with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED=y.
On the current version of ZimaOS, these drives are either not recognized or cannot be formatted because the Btrfs Zoned Mode is unavailable.
Describe the solution you'd like I would like ZimaOS to enable native support for the Zoned Storage stack:
Kernel Config: Please enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED=y in the next kernel update.
File System: Ensure btrfs-progs includes zoned support so users can format drives with mkfs.btrfs -O zoned.
Storage Manager: Allow the UI to recognize host-managed devices as valid storage units.
Describe alternatives you've considered Other modern NAS operating systems are already moving in this direction:
FnOS (飞牛OS): As a rapidly growing Debian-based NAS OS, FnOS is gaining traction by offering better compatibility with diverse enterprise hardware.
TrueNAS SCALE: Already has deep integration with Linux storage stacks that can handle Zoned Block Devices.
Unraid: Known for its flexibility with mixed drive types.
ZimaOS aims to be a leading "Plug and Play" solution for home servers. Adding support for Zoned Storage would make it much more competitive for users building high-capacity cold data archives.
Additional context Enterprise HM-SMR drives require "Sequential Writes" and "Write Pointers" management. The hardware (SATA/SAS) is ready, but the OS bridge is missing.
Technical Reference: https://zonedstorage.io/
Verification: Running grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED /boot/config-$(uname -r) on current ZimaOS returns is not set.