Re: [PATCH v4 08/13] btrfs:zoned: make sb for npo2 zone devices align with sb log offsets

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On 2022-05-17 08:50, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 16/05/2022 18:55, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
>> Superblocks for zoned devices are fixed as 2 zones at 0, 512GB and 4TB.
>> These are fixed at these locations so that recovery tools can reliably
>> retrieve the superblocks even if one of the mirror gets corrupted.
>>
>> power of 2 zone sizes align at these offsets irrespective of their
>> value but non power of 2 zone sizes will not align.
>>
>> To make sure the first zone at mirror 1 and mirror 2 align, write zero
>> operation is performed to move the write pointer of the first zone to
>> the expected offset. This operation is performed only after a zone reset
>> of the first zone, i.e., when the second zone that contains the sb is FULL.
> 
> Hi Pankaj, stupid question. Npo2 devices still have a zone size being a 
> multiple of 4k don't they?
> 
> If not, we'd need to also have a tail padding of the superblock zones, in order
> to move the WP of these zones to the end, so the sb-log states match up.
Hi Johannes,
NPO2 zoned devices has a minimum alignment requirement of 1MB. See
commit: `btrfs: zoned: relax the alignment constraint for zoned devices`

It will naturally align to 4k. So I don't think we need special handling
there with tail padding.



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