diff --git a/README b/README index 1fd76a6ade0d58d5134fd7d575cc2aaaec093d0a..4c44b39ebcce0b0d2c049bcaac1ec8dad7d814ab 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -111,8 +111,23 @@ The following walks through an example using interactive mode. ...> cd subsystems/ ...> create testnqn -Referrals/Discovery --------------------- +Discovery +---------- +Each NVMe Target has a discovery controller mechanism that an NVMe +Host can use to determine the NVM subsystems it has access too. +nvmetcli can be used to add a new record to the discovery controller +upon each new subsystem entry and port entry that the newly +created subsystem entry binds too (see the '/port/' and +'/subystem/' nvmetcli walk-through earlier in this README). Each NVMe +Host only gets to see the discovery entries defined in +/subsystems/[NQN NAME]/allowed_hosts and the IP port it is connected +to the NVMe Target. + +A Host can retrieve these discovery logs via the nvme-cli tool +(https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli). + +Referrals +--------- TBD Saving and restoring the configuration