In many cases, addressing bdevs by their UUIDs is often easier than
using their names, which can be somewhat arbitrary. For instance, the
NVMe bdev builds a name by addng the n{NSID} suffix to the controller's
name, while the UUID is filled with NGUID (if available).
The UUID alias is stored in the form defined by RFC 4122, meaning five
groups of lower-case hexadecimal characters. It's important to note
that bdev layer uses case-sensitive name comparison, so the user needs
to use the same textual UUID representation.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Sztyber <konrad.sztyber@intel.com>
Change-Id: I8b112fb81f29e952459d5f81d97fdc7a591730f8
Reviewed-on: https://review.spdk.io/gerrit/c/spdk/spdk/+/11395
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
Community-CI: Broadcom CI <spdk-ci.pdl@broadcom.com>
Community-CI: Mellanox Build Bot
Reviewed-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
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