A processing device in a memory system receives, from a host system, a host-resident translation layer read command comprising a physical address of data to be read from a memory device, wherein the physical address is indicated in at least a portion of a translation layer entry previously provided to the host system with a response to a host-resident translation layer write command and stored in a host-resident translation layer mapping table. The processing device further performs a read operation to read the data stored at the physical address from the memory device and sends, to the host system, the data from the physical address of the memory device.