From: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>
To: "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "dsterba@suse.cz" <dsterba@suse.cz>,
"dm-devel@redhat.com" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
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Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] btrfs: zoned: fail mount if the device does not support zone append
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:46:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BL0PR04MB65145DA8B6252C452EAA8BC9E7499@BL0PR04MB6514.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20210419093921.GA3226573@infradead.org
On 2021/04/19 18:41, hch@infradead.org wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 09:35:37AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> This is only to avoid someone from running zoned-btrfs on top of dm-crypt.
>> Without this patch, mount will be OK and file data writes will also actually be
>> OK. But all reads will miserably fail... I would rather have this patch in than
>> deal with the "bug reports" about btrfs failing to read files. No ?
>>
>> Note that like you, I dislike having to add such code. But it was my oversight
>> when I worked on getting dm-crypt to work on zoned drives. Zone append was
>> overlooked at that time... My bad, really.
>
> dm-crypt needs to stop pretending it supports zoned devices if it
> doesn't. Note that dm-crypt could fairly trivially support zone append
> by doing the same kind of emulation that the sd driver does.
I am not so sure about the "trivial" but yes, it is feasible. Let me think about
something then. Whatever we do, performance with ZNS will no be great, for
sure... But for SMR HDDs, we likely will not notice any difference in performance.
--
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-19 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 3:05 [PATCH 0/4] Fix dm-crypt zoned block device support Damien Le Moal
2021-04-16 3:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] dm: Introduce zone append support control Damien Le Moal
2021-04-16 6:51 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-04-16 3:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] dm crypt: Fix zoned block device support Damien Le Moal
2021-04-16 7:13 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-04-16 7:30 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-16 9:10 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-04-16 3:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] btrfs: zoned: fail mount if the device does not support zone append Damien Le Moal
2021-04-16 16:17 ` David Sterba
2021-04-19 9:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-19 9:35 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-19 9:39 ` hch
2021-04-19 9:46 ` Damien Le Moal [this message]
2021-04-19 16:48 ` David Sterba
2021-04-19 9:39 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-04-16 3:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] zonefs: fix synchronous write to sequential zone files Damien Le Moal
2021-04-16 6:50 ` Johannes Thumshirn
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