[PATCHv4 1/3] block: add zone specific block statuses

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Thu Oct 1 17:35:11 EDT 2020


On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 01:53:28PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> A zoned device with limited resources to open or activate zones may
> return an error when the host exceeds those limits. The same command may
> be successful if retried later, but the host needs to wait for specific
> zone states before it should expect a retry to succeed. Have the block
> layer provide an appropriate status for these conditions so applications
> can distinuguish this error for special handling.

Hi Jens,

Just checking in -- do you have any thoughts on this, or should I just
wait a bit more?

thx,
Keith



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