On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 11:15:40AM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote: > Such standardization effort is likely to face a lot of headwind because > defining a zone append command for ATA (T13 ACS) is not possible with a > single self-contained command (as one cannot return the written sector > using sense data like with scsi). The same was true for CDL and it got in anyway. And yes, CDL on ATA is a complete f**king mess, and needs to be fixed. So ATA needs to byte the bullet and extent the FIS anyway, so we might as well get started on it ASAP. Fortunately the only implementations that really matter now are AHCI and SAS expanders, so it sounds very doable to get there. > And when it comes to ZBC, keeping it in sync with ZAC is desired... There is so many features in SCSI and not ATA, most notably protection information that this sounds like a BS argument to me. That being said supporting Zone Append and properly doing CDL in ATA would be very useful.
