nguid for nvme over fabrics
Sagi Grimberg
sagi at grimberg.me
Thu Mar 22 12:02:13 PDT 2018
> Hi,
>
> I am trying nvme over fabrics, and found this: nguid is set to 0s by
> default for all devices.
>
> So, nguid can be same (0s in this case) for multiple devices. Is this
> valid ?
> Also, same nguid for multiple devices could be set, by the above scenario.
> No errors/warnings from either the nvme initiator/target.
>
> From spec, I see this:
> Namespace Globally Unique Identifier (NGUID): This field contains a
> 128-bit value that is
> globally unique and assigned to the namespace when the namespace
> is created. This field
> remains fixed throughout the life of the namespace and is preserved
> across namespace and
> controller operations (e.g., controller reset, namespace format, etc.).
We generate a UUID (which can be overwritten by the user)
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