On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:45:39AM +0000, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > > Can you please elaborate on that? Why doesn't this hold true for a > normal file system? If we split the DIO write into multiple BIOs with > zone-append, there is nothing which guarantees the order of the written > data (at least as far as I can see). Of course nothing gurantees the order. But the whole point is that the order does not matter.