On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 12:31:42PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > But there are use-cases which benefit from supporting zone-append on > raw block-dev path. > Certain user-space log-structured/cow FS/DB will use the device that > way. Aerospike is one example. > Pass-through is synchronous, and we lose the ability to use io-uring. So use zonefs, which is designed exactly for that use case.