Re: [PATCH v3] Add blkzonecmd and blkreport ZAC/ZBC drives

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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:06:58PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Karel, Shaun,
> 
> Tested on SAS and SATA host-managed drive. No problems detected.
> A few remarks though:
> 
> 1) The term "lba" is being used throughout (command description and
> error messages). This is confusing when using 4K drives. Since in fact
> the unit used for the arguments and displayed results is the traditional
> 512B "sector", I think that "LBA" should be replaced by "sector" is all
> messages, command argument descriptions and man pages.

 Fixed.

> 2) In kernel, the offset passed to the zone reset ioctl is indeed
> checked for alignment to the drive LBA size. So checking the offset
> passed to blkreset makes sense. However, the same check for report is a
> little too harsh since the kernel will accept an unaligned sector number
> (it will be aligned down to the containing zone start sector before
> issuing a report zones command to the drive). So we could get rid of
> that check I think.

Fixed.

> Otherwise, please feel free to add:
> Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx>

Thanks.

    Karel

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