On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 09:55:25AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote: > > Does nvme2c1n1 represent one path for the nvme2n1 device to use? If I connected a second path I would see something like nvme2c2n1 pop up as well? > > Yes, that is what that those names represent. > > In your example, the '2' in nvme2 is the subsystem instance, which > is just a unique number software assigned to the subsystem. The '1' > in nvme2c1 is the controller id that identify controller reports, so it > may not necessarily start at 1 or increase sequentially. Also note that we will only use the multipath code if the namespace is marked as shared namespace in NMIC. For private namespaces we skip the multipath detection.