[PATCH 0/3] Improve readbility of NVME "wwid" attribute

[Martin Wilck]

On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 09:53 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:25:30AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > With the current implementation, the default "fallback" WWID
> > generation
> > code (if no nguid, euid etc. are defined) for Linux NVME host and
> > target
> > results in the following WWID format:
> > 
> > nvme.0000-3163653363666438366239656630386200-
> > 4c696e7578000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> > 0000000000000-00000002
> > 
> > This is not only hard to read, it poses real problems for multipath
> > (dm WWIDs are limited to 128 characters), and it's not fully
> > standards
> > compliant.
> 
> What standard?  The wwid field is a Linux invention. 

I was referring to patch 1/3 in the series, the Linux target padding
the "model" string with 0-bytes, which is not allowed.

Regards
Martin

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