On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 05:58:22AM +0000, 韦龙平(Groot) wrote:
> > What is ZWL?  And why mention 6.6?  And why do you care about ordering?
> ZWL is Zone-Write-Locking and it was replaced by Zone-Write-Plugging on 6.12.

That's not a generally accepted acronym.  But more importantly it's all
gone now, so completely irrelevant.

> 
> > There is no real ordering requirement in the block layer.
> According to the design constraints of zoned device, write requests in the 
> same
> zone must be dispatched in order of address and there can be no holes in the 
> middle

Yes.  But none of that matters at the device mapper layer.  Either the
submitter needs to ensure ordering, or you must use zone append.

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