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See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 12:31:42PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > But there are use-cases which benefit from supporting zone-append on > raw block-dev path. > Certain user-space log-structured/cow FS/DB will use the device that > way. Aerospike is one example. > Pass-through is synchronous, and we lose the ability to use io-uring. So use zonefs, which is designed exactly for that use case.