increasing zone start sector on the device.
All read and write operations to zone files are not allowed beyond the file
-maximum size, that is, beyond the zone size. Any access exceeding the zone
-size is failed with the -EFBIG error.
+maximum size, that is, beyond the zone capacity. Any access exceeding the zone
+capacity is failed with the -EFBIG error.
Creating, deleting, renaming or modifying any attribute of files and
sub-directories is not allowed.
The number of blocks of a file as reported by stat() and fstat() indicates the
-size of the file zone, or in other words, the maximum file size.
+capacity of the zone file, or in other words, the maximum file size.
Conventional zone files
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Truncating sequential zone files is allowed only down to 0, in which case, the
zone is reset to rewind the file zone write pointer position to the start of
-the zone, or up to the zone size, in which case the file's zone is transitioned
-to the FULL state (finish zone operation).
+the zone, or up to the zone capacity, in which case the file's zone is
+transitioned to the FULL state (finish zone operation).
Format options
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is defined as invalib by the ZBC and ZAC standards, making it impossible to
discover the amount of data that has been written to the zone. In the case of a
read-only zone discovered at run-time, as indicated in the previous section.
-the size of the zone file is left unchanged from its last updated value.
+The size of the zone file is left unchanged from its last updated value.
Zonefs User Space Tools
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# ls -l /mnt/seq/0
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 25 13:49 /mnt/seq/0
-Since files are statically mapped to zones on the disk, the number of blocks of
-a file as reported by stat() and fstat() indicates the size of the file zone::
+Since files are statically mapped to zones on the disk, the number of blocks
+of a file as reported by stat() and fstat() indicates the capacity of the file
+zone::
# stat /mnt/seq/0
File: /mnt/seq/0
The number of blocks of the file ("Blocks") in units of 512B blocks gives the
maximum file size of 524288 * 512 B = 256 MB, corresponding to the device zone
-size in this example. Of note is that the "IO block" field always indicates the
-minimum I/O size for writes and corresponds to the device physical sector size.
+capacity in this example. Of note is that the "IO block" field always
+indicates the minimum I/O size for writes and corresponds to the device
+physical sector size.