On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 01:10:32PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:42:58AM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > There's a request for the nvme-cli package to generate a unique name > > to use when connecting to NVMe-over-fabrics targets: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1633814 > > > > I'm wondering what the right approach is. For the various Atomic > > variants, ISTM it's not very nice for the package to generate files in > > /etc in a postinstall script. And it also seems like it might be > > surprising for a remove-and-reinstall of nvme-cli to generate a whole > > new NQN. > > So this is similar to /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi. This one is > generated in %post by using iscsi-iname binary: > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/iscsi-initiator-utils/blob/master/f/iscsi-initiator-utils.spec#_224 > > But I wouldn't use this method verbatim! iscsi-iname generates different ID on > every invocation, which is not nice. > > The way proposed in BZ use very similar mechanism for NVMoF, invoking > nvme gen-hostnqn. Which has the same problem: every invocation gives > random, non-persistent ID. Again, not nice. > > I propose changing the mechanism of generating the name to give > persistent, machine-specific result. The best way would be to > patch nvme gen-hostqn to use sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() > function. This way generated hostqn will be tied to machine-id. Yes, please use sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() — it is designed specifically for such purposes. > After this change, stable hostqn could be generated at any moment: > during boot, during package installation, from udev-rule, etc… To underline this: the id that is generated is stable, so there is no need to actually store it. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
