hch's native NVMe multipathing [was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Don't blacklist nvme]

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Thu Feb 16 10:05:36 PST 2017


> I'm fine with the path selectors getting moved out; maybe it'll
> encourage new path selectors to be developed.
>
> But there will need to be some userspace interface stood up to support
> your native NVMe multipathing (you may not think it needed but think in
> time there will be a need to configure _something_).  That is the
> fragmentation I'm referring to.

I guess one config option that we'd need is multibus vs. failover
which are used per use-case.

I'd have to say that having something much simpler than multipath-tools
does sound appealing.



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