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When zones were first added the SCSI and ATA specs, two different models were supported (in addition to the drive managed one that is invisible to the host): - host managed where non-conventional zones there is strict requirement to write at the write pointer, or else an error is returned - host aware where a write point is maintained if writes always happen at it, otherwise it is left in an under-defined state and the sequential write preferred zones behave like conventional zones (probably very badly performing ones, though) Not surprisingly this lukewarm model didn't prove to be very useful and was finally removed from the ZBC and SBC specs (NVMe never implemented it). Due to to the easily disappearing write pointer host software could never rely on the write pointer to actually be useful for say recovery. Fortunately only a few HDD prototypes shipped using this model which never made it to mass production. Drop the support before it is too late. Note that any such host aware prototype HDD can still be used with Linux as we'll now treat it as a conventional HDD. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231217165359.604246-4-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.