Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 4 authors, 2021-04-19

Re: [PATCH 3/4] btrfs: zoned: fail mount if the device does not support zone append

From: "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-04-19 09:42:35
Also in: dm-devel, linux-btrfs, linux-fsdevel, linux-nvme, linux-scsi

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.
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