zone-capacity · shipping · also ZCAP

Zone capacity

Zone capacity is the maximum number of logical blocks that may be written within a zone.

Zone size describes the address span. Capacity may be smaller, leaving an unwritable tail; multiply logical-block counts by the formatted data bytes per LBA before comparing byte capacities. Early Finish can strand additional unwritten capacity until reset.

Relations

related

zns, zoned-block-device, active-zone-limit

Citations

1. Western Digital, Zoned Storage: NVMe Zoned Namespaces devices, capacity and resource limits. (accessed 2026-10-11)
2. Western Digital, Zoned Storage: device models, zone types, management commands and Zone Append. (accessed 2026-10-11)
3. Hesela: ZNS resource limits and worked examples (accessed 2026-10-11)

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