Re: Please further explain Linux's "zoned storage" roadmap [was: Re: [PATCH v14 00/13] support zoned block devices with non-power-of-2 zone sizes]

Subject: Re: Please further explain Linux's "zoned storage" roadmap [was: Re: [PATCH v14 00/13] support zoned block devices with non-power-of-2 zone sizes]
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:56:08 -0700
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On 9/21/22 16:55, Damien Le Moal wrote:

But again, that all depends on if Pankaj patch series is accepted, that
is, on everybody accepting that we lift the power-of-2 zone size constraint.

The companies that are busy with implementing zoned storage for UFSdevices are asking for kernel support for non-power-of-2 zone sizes.


Thanks,

Bart.

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