From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@infradead.org ('Christoph Hellwig') Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:18:04 -0800 Subject: Question on NVMe SCSI Translation Ref 1.5 In-Reply-To: <49158E750348AA499168FD41D889836072538066@fmsmsx117.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20151120183206.GA11043@infradead.org> <49158E750348AA499168FD41D889836072538066@fmsmsx117.amr.corp.intel.com> Message-ID: <20151121081804.GA16229@infradead.org> Hi Raymond, I'm not complaining about the spec - I think it's clearly useful as a reference. For example it allows my pNFS SCSI layout spec to be used with NVMe by providing a reference mapping, even if we never even send SCSI commands in that case. I just think the implementing it in the Linux kernel is useless as we provide a rich block I/O abstraction.