From: mwilck@suse.com (Martin Wilck)
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Improve readbility of NVME "wwid" attribute
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:54:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1500022485.4808.3.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170714075309.GA17877@lst.de>
On Fri, 2017-07-14@09:53 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017@12:25:30AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > With the current implementation, the default "fallback" WWID
> > generation
> > code (if no nguid, euid etc. are defined) for Linux NVME host and
> > target
> > results in the following WWID format:
> >
> > nvme.0000-3163653363666438366239656630386200-
> > 4c696e7578000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> > 0000000000000-00000002
> >
> > This is not only hard to read, it poses real problems for multipath
> > (dm WWIDs are limited to 128 characters), and it's not fully
> > standards
> > compliant.
>
> What standard? The wwid field is a Linux invention.
I was referring to patch 1/3 in the series, the Linux target padding
the "model" string with 0-bytes, which is not allowed.
Regards
Martin
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-13 22:25 [PATCH 0/3] Improve readbility of NVME "wwid" attribute Martin Wilck
2017-07-13 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] nvmet: identify controller: improve standard compliance Martin Wilck
2017-07-14 7:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-13 22:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] nvme: wwid_show: strip trailing 0-bytes Martin Wilck
2017-07-14 7:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-13 22:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvme: wwid_show: copy hex string verbatim Martin Wilck
2017-07-14 7:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-14 9:58 ` Martin Wilck
2017-07-14 12:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-14 19:40 ` Martin Wilck
2017-07-15 8:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-17 6:12 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-13 22:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] Improve readbility of NVME "wwid" attribute Keith Busch
2017-07-14 7:54 ` Martin Wilck
2017-07-14 7:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-14 7:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-14 9:41 ` Martin Wilck
2017-07-14 12:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-14 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-14 8:54 ` Martin Wilck [this message]
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