Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Remote access to pmem on storage targets

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:29:35AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> As I understand it, NVMf devices look like local devices.
> NVMf devices need globally unique naming to enable safe use
> with pNFS and other remote storage access protocols.

NVMe provides global uniqueue identifiers similar to SCSI, and in fact
there is even a standardised mapping to SCSI.  The current SCSI layout
draft will work fine with both multi ported PCIe NVMe devices as well
as future fabrics devices.
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