[dm-devel] [PATCH v4 00/13] support non power of 2 zoned devices

Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal at opensource.wdc.com
Thu May 19 03:08:26 UTC 2022


On 5/18/22 00:34, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:10:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> I'm a little surprised about all this activity.
>>
>> I though the conclusion at LSF/MM was that for Linux itself there
>> is very little benefit in supporting this scheme.  It will massively
>> fragment the supported based of devices and applications, while only
>> having the benefit of supporting some Samsung legacy devices.
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> That wasn't my impression from that LSF/MM session, but once the
> videos become available, folks can decide for themselves.

There was no real discussion about zone size constraint on the zone
storage BoF. Many discussions happened in the hallway track though.

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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