On 2022-07-28 15:29, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> But I am fine with going back to bdev_is_zone_start if you and Damien >> feel strongly otherwise. > The "zone start LBA" terminology occurs in ZBC-1, ZBC-2 and ZNS but > "zone aligned" not. I prefer "zone start" because it is clear, > unambiguous and because it has the same meaning as in the corresponding > standards documents. I propose to proceed as follows for checking > whether a number of LBAs is a multiple of the zone length: > * Either use bdev_is_zone_start() directly. > * Or introduce a synonym for bdev_is_zone_start() with an appropriate > name, e.g. bdev_is_zone_len_multiple(). > Thanks for the clarification Bart. I will go with bdev_is_zone_start() as it is also a commonly used terminology. > Thanks, > > Bart.
