Re: [PATCH 1/5] block: add capacity field to zone descriptors

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:34:20AM +0900, Keith Busch wrote:
> From: Matias Bjørling <matias.bjorling@xxxxxxx>
> 
> In the zoned storage model, the sectors within a zone are typically all
> writeable. With the introduction of the Zoned Namespace (ZNS) Command
> Set in the NVM Express organization, the model was extended to have a
> specific writeable capacity.
> 
> Extend the zone descriptor data structure with a zone capacity field to
> indicate to the user how many sectors in a zone are writeable.
> 
> Introduce backward compatibility in the zone report ioctl by extending
> the zone report header data structure with a flags field to indicate if
> the capacity field is available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias.bjorling@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx>



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