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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 4/4] io_uring: add support for zone-append
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 06:59:45PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> > block doesn't work for the case of writes to files that don't have
> > to be aligned in any way. And that I think is the more broadly
> > applicable use case than zone append on block devices.
>
> But when can it happen that we do zone-append on a file (zonefs I
> asssume), and device returns a location (write-pointer essentially)
> which is not in multiple of 512b?

All the time. You open a file with O_APPEND. You write a record to
it of any kind of size, then the next write will return the position
it got written at, which can be anything.

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