I believe the "least proprietary" interface to this, that looks like it'll cope with both SMR rotating disks and flash, is Zoned Namespaces. With ZNS, you have

I believe the "least proprietary" interface to this, that looks like it'll cope with both SMR rotating disks and flash, is Zoned Namespaces. With ZNS, you have a fixed number of fixed size append-only zones, each of which can only be erased as a whole. It starts to look a lot like a typical LSM tree.. https://zonedstorage.io/docs/introduction/zns https://zonedstorage.io/docs/introduction/zns