linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] btrfs zoned block device support

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 04:59:23 +0000
From:   Naohiro Aota <Naohiro.Aota@....com>
To:     "dsterba@...e.cz" <dsterba@...e.cz>
CC:     "linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com>,
        Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>,
        Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] btrfs zoned block device support

On 2019/06/13 2:50, David Sterba wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 10:10:06PM +0900, Naohiro Aota wrote:
>> btrfs zoned block device support
>>
>> This series adds zoned block device support to btrfs.
> 
> The overall design sounds ok.
> 
> I skimmed through the patches and the biggest task I see is how to make
> the hmzoned adjustments and branches less visible, ie. there are too
> many if (hmzoned) { do something } standing out. But that's merely a
> matter of wrappers and maybe an abstraction here and there.

Sure. I'll add some more abstractions in the next version.

> How can I test the zoned devices backed by files (or regular disks)? I
> searched for some concrete example eg. for qemu or dm-zoned, but closest
> match was a text description in libzbc README that it's possible to
> implement. All other howtos expect a real zoned device.

You can use tcmu-runer [1] to create an emulated zoned device backed by 
a regular file. Here is a setup how-to:
http://zonedstorage.io/projects/tcmu-runner/#compilation-and-installation

[1] https://github.com/open-iscsi/tcmu-runner

> Merge target is 5.3 or later, we'll see how things will go. I'm
> expecting that we might need some time to get feedback about the
> usability as there's no previous work widely used that we can build on
> top of.
>