Re: [External] [LSF/MM/BPF BoF] Session for Zoned Storage 2023

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> On Jan 9, 2023, at 3:00 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> My point here that we could summarize:
>>> (1) what features already implemented and supported,
>>> (2) what features are under implementation and what is progress,
>>> (3) what features need to be implemented yet.
>>> 
>>> Have we implemented everything already? :)
>> 
>> Standards are full of features that are not useful in a general purpose
>> system. So we likely never will implement everything. We never did for
>> SCSI and ATA and never will either.
> Indeed, and that's a very important point. Some people read specs and
> find things that aren't in the Linux driver (any spec, not a specific
> one), and think they need to be added. No. We only add them if they make
> sense, both in terms of use cases, but also as long as they can get
> implemented cleanly. Parts of basically any spec is garbage and don't
> necessarily fit within the given subsystem either.
> 
> The above would make me worried about patches coming from anyone with
> that mindset.
> 

OK. We already have discussion about garbage in spec. :)
So, what would we like finally implement and what never makes sense to do?
Should we identify really important stuff for implementation?

Thanks,
Slava.






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