Re: [LSF/MM/BPF BoF] BoF for Zoned Storage

Javier González
2022-03-07T15:28:16Z

> On 7 Mar 2022, at 16.16, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> ﻿On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 03:35:12PM +0100, Javier González wrote:
>> As I mentioned in the last reply to to Dave, the main concern for me
>> at the moment is supporting arbitrary zone sizes in the kernel. If we
>> can agree on a path towards that, we can definitely commit to focus on
>> ZoneFS and implement support for it on the different places we
>> maintain in user-space.
>
> FWIW, the block layer doesn't require pow2 chunk_sectors anymore, so it
> looks like that requirement for zone sizes can be relaxed, too.

Exactly. This is the core of the proposal.