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No known partitioning tool supports zoned block devices, especially the host managed flavor with strong sequential write constraints. Furthermore, there are also no known user nor use cases for partitioned zoned block devices. This patch removes partition device creation for zoned block devices, which allows simplifying the processing of zone commands for zoned block devices. A warning is added if a partition table is found on the device. For report zones operations no zone sector information remapping is necessary anymore, simplifying the code. Of note is that remapping of zone reports for DM targets is still necessary as done by dm_remap_zone_report(). Similarly, remaping of a zone reset bio is not necessary anymore. Testing for the applicability of the zone reset all request also becomes simpler and only needs to check that the number of sectors of the requested zone range is equal to the disk capacity. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.