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Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:54:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2f7c9abe-a23f-4b2f-99aa-e6d220c74dd0@kernel.dk> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 07:54:05 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] New zoned loop block device driver To: Damien Le Moal , linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig References: <20250106142439.216598-1-dlemoal@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Jens Axboe In-Reply-To: <20250106142439.216598-1-dlemoal@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 1/6/25 7:24 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote: > The first patch implements the new "zloop" zoned block device driver > which allows creating zoned block devices using one regular file per > zone as backing storage. Couldn't we do this with ublk and keep most of this stuff in userspace rather than need a whole new loop driver? -- Jens Axboe