Zone forward drive management

One or more tangible computer-readable storage media encoding computer-executable instructions for executing on a computer system a computer process, the computer process comprising:

• receiving a command to write new data to a target LBA included in a consecutive sequence of LBAs mapped to a first contiguous physical zone of a storage medium;
• determining that writing the new data to the first contiguous physical zone affects valid data in one or more blocks of the first contiguous physical zone not updated by the command;
• based on the determination, mapping the consecutive sequence of LBAs to a second contiguous physical zone while preserving the mapping of the LBAs to the first contiguous physical zone;
• and
• writing the new data to the second contiguous physical zone.

A system comprising:

• memory;
• at least one processor;
• a zone forwarding module stored in the memory and executable by the at least one processor, the zone forwarding module configured to:
• receive a command to write new data to a target LBA included in a consecutive sequence of LBAs mapped to a first contiguous physical zone of a storage medium;
• map the consecutive sequence of LBAs to a second contiguous physical zone while preserving the mapping of the LBAs to the first contiguous physical zone;
• and
• write the new data to the second contiguous physical zone.