On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 04:59:48PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:35:33PM +0900, Minwoo Im wrote:

quoted

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with e.g. fdisk, mkfs, mount, in fstab, what to specify in fstab, etc.

I think that there is value in reducing the confusion for regular users.

Agreed on this point.  We might have thousands of namespaces and it
might be making confusions to users.

How does this create a confusion that it doesn't for the existing NVMe
block devices and the SCSI disk and generic devices?

The SCSI generic devices are named /dev/sgX while the SCSI block devices
are named /dev/sd*, so the names are more distinct compared to /dev/nvme*
and /dev/nvme-generic-*.

A "regular" Linux user who writes /dev/sd<tab> will not see the SCSI
generic devices, but with the current proposal, if he writes
/dev/nvme<tab>, he will see the NVMe generic devices.

I just had a gut feeling that this could cause confusion in the future.
However, I trust your experience and judgement more than my gut feeling.


Kind regards,
Niklas
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