NAME¶

zbc_set_zones - Initialize a file or device for ZBC emulation

SYNOPSIS¶

zbc_set_zones [options] device command command_arguments zbc_set_zones [options] file command command_arguments

DESCRIPTION¶

zbc_set_zones is used to initialize a regular file or a regular block device to use it as an emulated ZBC device.

The device argument must be the pathname to a regular block device file (e.g., /dev/sdb), or to a regular file that is not empty. The size of the file is used to determine the capacity of the emulated device.

The command and command_arguments can have one of the following form.

set_sz cnv_zone_size zone_size

Initialize the emulated device by specifying the total capacity to use for conventional zones and the size of zones. The argument cnv_zone_size specifies the total capacity of conventional zones in MiB. The argument zone_size specifies the size of all zones in MiB.

set_ps cnv_zone_size_ratio zone_size

Initialize the emulated device by specifying the capacity ratio used for conventional zones and the size of zones. The argument cnv_zone_size_ratio specifies the percentage of the total capacity to use for conventional zones. The argument zone_size specifies the size of all zones in MiB.

OPTIONS¶

The following options can be specified.

-h, --help

Display a usage help message and exit.

-v

Verbose mode (for debugging problems).

AUTHOR¶

Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

SEE ALSO¶

zbc_set_write_ptr(8)

AVAILABILITY¶

The zbc_set_zones utility is part of the libzbc library available from
https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/libzbc.