Re: [PATCH v13 13/13] dm: add power-of-2 target for zoned devices with non power-of-2 zone sizes
From: Mike Snitzer
Date: Fri Sep 16 2022 - 14:04:18 EST
On Fri, Sep 16 2022 at 1:57P -0400,
Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you certain you shouldn't at least be exposing a different
> >> logical_block_size to upper layers?
> >>
> > To be honest, I tested my patches in QEMU with 4k Logical block size and on
> > a device with 4k LBA size.
> >
> > I did a quick test with 512B LBA size in QEMU, and I didn't see any
> > failures when I ran my normal test suite.
> >
> > Do you see any problem with exposing the same LBA as the underlying device?
> >
>
> Do you see any issues here? If not, I can send the next version with the
> other two changes you suggested.
That's fine, I just thought there might be special considerations
needed. But if yo've tested it and upper layers work as expected then
obviously my concern wasn't applicable.
Thanks,
Mike