Booting from NVMe over Fabrics

[James Smart]

On 6/24/2017 12:17 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As long as you don't have weird hardware offloads (which seems rather
> pointless) there is nothing interesting in booting NVMe - yes you'll
> need NVMe-cli, and a working RDMA setup.  But that's not any different
> than SRP or iSER, or NFS over RDMA, so we the distros should do the
> same for NVMe that they do for those technologіes.
You seem to have left off FC.  FC would like to boot FC-NVME the same as 
it does FC-SCSI/FCP.

The main issue so far is user-level discovery. Swap, kdump, and ensuring 
you have connectivity/can run while low-memory, are severely 
taxed/at-risk by the user-level paradigms.

-- james