Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] io_uring: add support for zone-append
From: hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue Sep 08 2020 - 11:33:17 EST
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.