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

[alan.adamson at oracle.com]

On 1/23/24 1:05 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 09:02:43AM -0800, alan.adamson at oracle.com wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
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I get it, but there is already an injection framework in place for nvme. 
Is there no plan to improve it?

Alan