Enhanced workload management using internal copy and/or zone-append technologies

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• receive, at a disk, nameless write instructions including a plurality of threads for writing disk input-output (IO) units to the disk, wherein the nameless write instructions do not specify where the disk IO units are to be written;
• determine, as the disk IO units of the plurality of threads are added to a write queue on the disk, a common zone for the disk IO units to be written;
• assign, by the disk, write addresses in the common zone to the disk IO units;
• and
• provide, by the disk, a post-write logical block address (LBA) representing the write addresses assigned to the disk IO units in the write queue to write to the common zone.

A computing system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the computing system to:
• receive, at a disk, nameless write instructions including a plurality of threads for writing disk input-output (IO) units to the disk, the plurality of threads including a first thread and a second thread, the first thread comprising first instructions to write to the disk IO units of the first thread, and the second thread comprising second instructions to write to the disk IO units of the second thread, wherein arrival times of the disk IO units of the first thread overlap arrival times of the disk IO units of the second thread, and wherein the nameless write instructions do not specify where the disk IO units are to be written;
• determine, as the disk IO units of the plurality of threads are added to a write queue on the disk, a common zone for the disk IO units to be written;
• and
• assign, by the disk, write addresses in the common zone to the disk IO units.