nvme-reservation · shipping · also NVMe namespace reservation

NVMe reservation

An NVMe reservation applies a selected host-access policy to an NVMe namespace.

Related Observatory article: NVMe reservation on hesela.com

Registration, acquisition and reporting are separate operations. The acquisition command selects among six reservation types, including registrants-only and all-registrants policies; a reservation is not synonymous with a single writer. [1] Reservation Report describes namespace state using controller records, so its controller count is not a unique-host count. [2]

Relations

related
namespace-nvme, nvme-host-identifier, nvme-reservation-persistence, scsi-persistent-reservations, io-fencing

Citations

  1. nvme-cli v2.15: nvme-resv-acquire manual. (accessed 2026-10-16)
  2. nvme-cli v2.15: nvme-resv-report manual. (accessed 2026-10-16)
  3. Storage fencing: why a lost heartbeat does not stop writes (accessed 2026-10-16)

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