[PATCH 07/10] nvme: track shared namespaces

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Aug 29 01:29:31 PDT 2017


On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 08:41:23PM +0800, Guan Junxiong wrote:
> If a namespace can be accessed by another subsystem,  the above line
> will ignore such namespace.
>
> Or does the NVMe/NVMf specification constrain that any namespace
> can only be accessed by a subsystem?

A namespace is a part of a NVMe subsystem.  You must not reuse the
uniqueue identifier outside the subsystem scope or your implementation
will be non-compliant.



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