Re: [PATCH v0] f2fs: allow direct read for zoned device

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jul 29 2022 - 09:27:21 EST


On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 09:25:17AM +0900, Eunhee Rho wrote:
> For zoned devices, f2fs forbids direct IO and forces buffered IO
> to serialize write IOs. However, the constraint does not apply to
> read IOs.

Asymetric capabilitis will cause a whole lot of problems for us. Can
we figure out why direct writes to zoned devices are not supported and
just fix that instead?