Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices

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On 30/04/2020 04:18, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:45:54 +0900, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> 
>> The upcoming NVMe ZNS Specification will define a new type of write
>> command for zoned block devices, zone append.
>>
>> When when writing to a zoned block device using zone append, the start
>> sector of the write is pointing at the start LBA of the zone to write to.
>> Upon completion the block device will respond with the position the data
>> has been placed in the zone. This from a high level perspective can be
>> seen like a file system's block allocator, where the user writes to a
>> file and the file-system takes care of the data placement on the device.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Applied to 5.8/scsi-queue, thanks!

Btw any other comments on the SCSI parts of this series or the general 
architecture from your side Martin?




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