Re: [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post about zoned storage emulation

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

Cool, thanks for posting an update.

An short introduction would be nice before diving into the details of ZBDs:
"This summer I worked on adding Zoned Block Device (ZBD) support to
virtio-blk as part of the <a
href="https://www.outreachy.org/";>Outreachy</a> internship program.
QEMU hasn't directly supported ZBDs before so this article explains
how they work and how QEMU needed to be extended."

Please include a sample command-line so readers have an idea of how to
use ZBDs. Something like:

"Once the QEMU and Linux patches have been merged it will be possible
to expose a virtio-blk ZBD to the guest like this:
--blockdev zoned_host_device,node-name=zbd0,filename=path/to/zbd,cache.direct=on
\
--device virtio-blk-pci,drive=zbd0"

If you want to include URLs to the patch series, lore.kernel.org is
good for linking:
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221027154504.20684-1-faithilikerun@gmail.com/
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221030093242.208839-1-faithilikerun@gmail.com/
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221110053952.3378990-1-dmitry.fomichev@wdc.com/

Stefan