Health reporting from non-volatile block storage device to processing device

A method for using a non-volatile block storage device, the method comprising:

• receiving, by an operating system executing on a host processing device from the non-volatile block storage device, information regarding use of the non-volatile block storage device by the host processing device, the received information including an indication of how the operating system is to write to the non-volatile block storage device;
• and
• adapting, by the operating system executing on the host processing device, the behavior of the operating system in writing to the non-volatile block storage device based on the received information.

A machine-readable storage medium that is either a memory or a disk, the machine-readable storage medium having processor-executable instructions for performing operations stored therein, the operations comprising:

• receiving, by software executing on a host processing device, information from the non-volatile block storage device, the received information including an indication of how the software executing on the host processing device is to write data to the non-volatile block storage device, and the received information being generated by the non-volatile block storage device based on use of the non-volatile block storage device by the host processing device;
• and
• changing, based on the received information, how the software executing on the host processing device writes data to the non-volatile block storage device.