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.
