zonefs: document the explicit-open mount option
Document the newly introduced explicit-open mount option. Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
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read-only zone discovered at run-time, as indicated in the previous section.
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The size of the zone file is left unchanged from its last updated value.
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A zoned block device (e.g. an NVMe Zoned Namespace device) may have limits on
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the number of zones that can be active, that is, zones that are in the
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implicit open, explicit open or closed conditions. This potential limitation
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translates into a risk for applications to see write IO errors due to this
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limit being exceeded if the zone of a file is not already active when a write
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request is issued by the user.
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To avoid these potential errors, the "explicit-open" mount option forces zones
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to be made active using an open zone command when a file is opened for writing
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for the first time. If the zone open command succeeds, the application is then
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guaranteed that write requests can be processed. Conversely, the
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"explicit-open" mount option will result in a zone close command being issued
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to the device on the last close() of a zone file if the zone is not full nor
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empty.
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Zonefs User Space Tools
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