Western Digital has published a specialized Zonefs file system for zoned drives
The director of software development at Western Digital proposed a new file system, Zonefs, on the Linux kernel developer mailing list, aimed at simplifying low-level work with zoned storage devices. Zonefs associates each zone on a drive with a separate file that can be used to store data in raw mode without sector- and block-level manipulation. Zonefs is not POSIX compliant […]