From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:12:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170921211246.GB10713@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170920235250.GA28865@lst.de>
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:52:50AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I noticed the odd renaming in sysfs and though about gettind rid
> of the /dev/nvme/ directory. I just need to come up with a good
> name for the device nodes - the name can't contain /dev/nvme* as
> nvme-cli would break if it sees files that start with nvme in /dev/.
Ah, didn't know that. I'll fix nvme-cli to handle this.
We can still use a different naming convention for the multipath handles.
> /dev/nvmN ?
Looks safe.
BTW, considered persistent nameing rules to symlink these from
/dev/disk/by-id/? May need to add an attribute to the multipath object
to assist that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-21 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-18 23:14 nvme multipath support V2 Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 1/9] nvme: allow timed-out ios to retry Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 2/9] block: move REQ_NOWAIT Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 3/9] block: add REQ_DRV bit Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 4/9] block: provide a direct_make_request helper Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 5/9] block: add a blk_steal_bios helper Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 6/9] nvme: track subsystems Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21 22:52 ` Keith Busch
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 7/9] nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20 8:27 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 8/9] nvme: track shared namespaces Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20 8:36 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20 14:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21 5:22 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-21 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21 15:16 ` Keith Busch
2017-09-24 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 9/9] nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20 0:18 ` Tony Yang
2017-09-20 8:15 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20 9:42 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20 22:58 ` Keith Busch
2017-09-20 23:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21 21:12 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2017-09-24 14:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-22 15:09 ` Keith Busch
2017-09-24 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20 11:09 ` nvme multipath support V2 Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21 5:23 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-21 14:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-22 0:21 ` Tony Yang
2017-09-24 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
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