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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: "Atchley, Scott" <atchleyes@ornl.gov>,
	"lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux RDMA Mailing List <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Remote access to pmem on storage targets
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:00:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160126170021.GA21672@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0C5C0B9-A1A2-4428-B3CA-7BBCC5BEF10D@oracle.com>

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:29:35AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> As I understand it, NVMf devices look like local devices.
> NVMf devices need globally unique naming to enable safe use
> with pNFS and other remote storage access protocols.

NVMe provides global uniqueue identifiers similar to SCSI, and in fact
there is even a standardised mapping to SCSI.  The current SCSI layout
draft will work fine with both multi ported PCIe NVMe devices as well
as future fabrics devices.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-26 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-25 21:19 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Remote access to pmem on storage targets Chuck Lever
2016-01-26  8:25 ` [Lsf-pc] " Jan Kara
2016-01-26 15:58   ` Chuck Lever
2016-01-27  0:04     ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-27 15:55       ` Chuck Lever
2016-01-28 21:10         ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-27 10:52     ` Sagi Grimberg
2016-01-26 15:25 ` Atchley, Scott
2016-01-26 15:29   ` Chuck Lever
2016-01-26 17:00     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-01-27 16:54 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC/ATTEND] RDMA passive target Boaz Harrosh
2016-01-27 17:02   ` [Lsf-pc] " James Bottomley
2016-01-27 17:27   ` Sagi Grimberg
2016-01-31 14:20     ` Boaz Harrosh
2016-01-31 16:55       ` Yigal Korman
2016-02-01 10:36         ` Sagi Grimberg

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