[PATCH 0/6] power_of_2 emulation support for NVMe ZNS devices

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Mar 10 06:44:49 PST 2022


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 01:57:58PM +0100, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
> Yes, these drives are intended for Linux users that would use the zoned
> block device. Append is supported but holes in the LBA space (due to
> diff in zone cap and zone size) is still a problem for these users.

I'd really like to hear from the users.  Because really, either they
should use a proper file system abstraction (including zonefs if that is
all they need), or raw nvme passthrough which will alredy work for this
case.  But adding a whole bunch of crap because people want to use the
block device special file for something it is not designed for just
does not make any sense.



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