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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 02/11] block: allow blk-zoned devices to have non-power-of-2 zone size
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On 2022-07-28 15:29, Bart Van Assche wrote:

>> But I am fine with going back to bdev_is_zone_start if you and Damien
>> feel strongly otherwise.
> The "zone start LBA" terminology occurs in ZBC-1, ZBC-2 and ZNS but
> "zone aligned" not. I prefer "zone start" because it is clear,
> unambiguous and because it has the same meaning as in the corresponding
> standards documents. I propose to proceed as follows for checking
> whether a number of LBAs is a multiple of the zone length:
> * Either use bdev_is_zone_start() directly.
> * Or introduce a synonym for bdev_is_zone_start() with an appropriate
> name, e.g. bdev_is_zone_len_multiple().
>
Thanks for the clarification Bart. I will go with bdev_is_zone_start()
as it is also a commonly used terminology.
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.

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