Re: [PATCH v15 00/42] btrfs: zoned block device support

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On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 07:21:39PM +0900, Naohiro Aota wrote:
> This series adds zoned block device support to btrfs. Some of the patches
> in the previous series are already merged as preparation patches.

Moved from for-next to misc-next.

> * Log-structured superblock
> 
> Superblock (and its copies) is the only data structure in btrfs which
> has a fixed location on a device. Since we cannot overwrite in a
> sequential write required zone, we cannot place superblock in the
> zone.
> 
> This series implements superblock log writing. It uses two zones as a
> circular buffer to write updated superblocks. Once the first zone is filled
> up, start writing into the second zone. The first zone will be reset once
> both zones are filled. We can determine the postion of the latest
> superblock by reading the write pointer information from a device.

About that, in this patchset it's still leaving superblock at the fixed
zone number while we want it at a fixed location, spanning 2 zones
regardless of their size.



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