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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:53:16 -0600
From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 03:40:30PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The new block devices nodes for multipath access will show up as
> 
> 	/dev/nvm-subXnZ

Just thinking ahead ... Once this goes in, someone will want to boot their
OS from a multipath target. It was a pain getting installers to recognize
/dev/nvmeXnY as an install destination. I'm not sure if installers have
gotten any better in the last 5 years about recognizing new block names.