nvme-cli format timeout

Paul Grabinar paul.grabinar at ranbarg.com
Thu Jul 23 13:22:30 PDT 2015


On 23/07/15 21:11, Keith Busch wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks.
I'll post a pull request. As you say though, having a timeout parameter
would probably be even better.



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