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From: martin.petersen@oracle.com (Martin K. Petersen)
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 21:08:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] nvme: claim block devices
In-Reply-To: <20171004071312.GA21143@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of
 "Wed, 4 Oct 2017 09:13:12 +0200")
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Christoph,

> The only other option I could think of would be to turn names around:
> make /dev/nvmeX (chardev) and /dev/nvmeXnY the per-subsystem devices
> that are multipathed if available.  We'd then need new devices for the
> invdividual controllers.

I like that approach.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering