[RFC 0/1] nvme: Add NVMe LBA Fault Injection

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 09:02:43AM -0800, alan.adamson at oracle.com wrote:
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> On 1/17/24 11:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 03:27:27PM -0800, Alan Adamson wrote:
>>> It has been requested that the NVMe fault injector be able to inject faults when accessing
>>> specific Logical Block Addresses (LBA).
>> Curious, but who has requested this?  Because injecting errors really
>> isn't the drivers job.
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> It's an application (database) that is requesting it for their error 
> handling testing.

Well, how about they then insert it into the real or virtual hardware.
The Linux nvme driver isn't really an error injection framework.