We should perhaps consider having a GPU Direct Storage backend for mdio. kvikio.zarr.GDSStore enables it available through kvikio.
Some relevant links here:
xarray-contrib/xbatcher#87
zarr-developers/zarr-python#934
https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/release.html#release-2-13-0
pydata/xarray#6874