From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: keith.busch@intel.com (Keith Busch) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:53:16 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 8/9] nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems In-Reply-To: <20170925134031.10548-9-hch@lst.de> References: <20170925134031.10548-1-hch@lst.de> <20170925134031.10548-9-hch@lst.de> Message-ID: <20170928155315.GK8463@localhost.localdomain> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017@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.