But the point I'm making is that "host-aware" should be good enough for this type of use. Even though it's still drive-managed, the internal logic in the drive should pass through certain write patterns without interference. And you can make the host aware through feeding in a few parameters; it doesn't necessarily have to interrogate the drive.
In other words, I'm disagreeing with the idea that this big laundry list of things would need to be updated. The filesystem should be sufficient if these drives act in a way that's at all reasonable.
Ah, maybe. It’s not a big step from aware to managed, though. The zoned api is actually quite simple: what are the zones?, open zone, finish zone. The filesystem that’s tolerant of these characteristics is the hard part.
But the point I'm making is that "host-aware" should be good enough for this type of use. Even though it's still drive-managed, the internal logic in the drive should pass through certain write patterns without interference. And you can make the host aware through feeding in a few parameters; it doesn't necessarily have to interrogate the drive.
In other words, I'm disagreeing with the idea that this big laundry list of things would need to be updated. The filesystem should be sufficient if these drives act in a way that's at all reasonable.