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

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Fri Mar 11 13:31:02 PST 2022


On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 01:04:35PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:51:35PM -0800, Keith Busch wrote:
> 
> > I'm starting to like the previous idea of creating an unholey
> > device-mapper for such users...
> 
> Won't that restrict nvme with chunk size crap. For instance later if we
> want much larger block sizes.

I'm not sure I understand. The chunk_size has nothing to do with the
block size. And while nvme is a user of this in some circumstances, it
can't be used concurrently with ZNS because the block layer appropriates
the field for the zone size.



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