nvme-cli format timeout

Keith Busch keith.busch at intel.com
Thu Jul 23 13:11:18 PDT 2015


On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Paul Grabinar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am aware of some NVMe drives that take well over 60 seconds to perform
> a format and therefore timeout during the format command issued by nvme-cli.
>
> We might want to consider increasing the timeout. The following patch is
> an example to show what I mean.

Good idea. We should probably make this a parameter as well as up
the timeout. Only the passthru command takes the timeout request as a
parameter for some reason.

If you want to post a pull request on github, we can apply it from there.



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