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Zoned storage is a
form of storage that offers higher capacities by making tradeoffs in the kinds
of writes that are allowed to the device. It was the topic of a storage and
filesystem session led by Luis
Chamberlain at the
2022 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM). Over the years,
zoned storage has been a frequent topic at LSFMM, going back to LSFMM 2013, where
support for
shingled magnetic recording (SMR) devices, which were the starting point for
zoned storage, was discussed.