nvme-cli spdk plugin

[Jim]

You’re quite welcome, Jens.

Here’s a quick story - years ago, while working for a large company whose name starts with “I” I was testing NVMe memory access on a frankly obsolete controller when I discovered a bug in the Linux NVMe driver.

I dutifully reported it, together with supporting documentation including the test I wrote to reproduce it.

The sole response was, “why aren’t you using mvne_cli for your test?”  Sound familiar?

This got me curious so I looked at more recent driver code and found that, not only was the issue already fixed, the person who flamed me was the one who had fixed it.

When I pointed this out, my boss literally YELLED at me (yes, the sort of HR-firing behavior) for having the temerity to disparage one of the NVMe driver elites.  Said elite has just replied to my email.

So, yes, it is useful for the rest of you younger folk to fully understand what you have to put up with to keep on collecting paychecks.

OK. Perhaps not useful but very self satisfying.

PS If you wish to drop me out of this list for this disruption, please do, I really don’t need to get these and it just clutters up my local (NVMe) storage.

> On Apr 17, 2024, at 7:57 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk> wrote:
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> On 4/17/24 8:39 AM, Jim wrote:
>> This, right here, folks is why I’m glad I’m retired.
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> Thanks for your useful commentary.
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> Jens Axboe
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