[PATCH 08/14] nvmet: use nvme write cmd group setting op_flag

Logan Gunthorpe logang at deltatee.com
Mon Aug 10 19:34:55 EDT 2020



On 2020-08-10 5:32 p.m., Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> On 8/10/20 16:23, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> rejected ?
>> In some cases we were worried about side effects with other hosts
>> accessing the namespace, in others they require using the ctrl_id which
>> isn't really mapped in a sane way.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. The first case is completely admin's 
> responsibility how they want to use it and share it best we can provide
> a documentation.
> 
> The second case we need to fix it, coz that defeats the whole purpose
> of having passthru driver without ns-mgmt and critical commands which I
> know are very important in the data centers.

Then send patches and make the case that they are safe. Sagi was the
biggest opponent of allowing various admin commands.

Logan



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