[dm-devel] [PATCH v4 00/13] support non power of 2 zoned devices

Luis Chamberlain mcgrof at kernel.org
Wed May 18 20:12:37 PDT 2022


On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:08:26PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 5/18/22 00:34, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:10:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> I'm a little surprised about all this activity.
> >>
> >> I though the conclusion at LSF/MM was that for Linux itself there
> >> is very little benefit in supporting this scheme.  It will massively
> >> fragment the supported based of devices and applications, while only
> >> having the benefit of supporting some Samsung legacy devices.
> > 
> > FWIW,
> > 
> > That wasn't my impression from that LSF/MM session, but once the
> > videos become available, folks can decide for themselves.
> 
> There was no real discussion about zone size constraint on the zone
> storage BoF. Many discussions happened in the hallway track though.

Right so no direct clear blockers mentioned at all during the BoF.

  Luis



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