Re: [PATCHv3 1/5] block: add capacity field to zone descriptors

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:25 AM Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

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Jens Axboe




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