[PATCH] nvme-sysfs: add 'fna' attribute

Tokunori Ikegami ikegami.t at gmail.com
Sun Sep 22 11:50:52 PDT 2024


There are many identify commands fields so if the nvme driver can be 
kept the field values seems can be reduced to run many identify 
commands. Thank you.

On 2024/09/23 0:36, Keith Busch wrote:
> At least for multi-namespace subsystems, I would agree knowing this
> value is important to understand the potentially undesired reprecussions
> of running a format command, but that logic ought to just go in tooling.
> And the meaning of the reported value here is not immediately obvious to
> a typical user without the spec in front of you, so I'm a little
> skeptical on exporting this attribute.
>
> nvme-cli already checks this on a format request, at least. You probably
> are not formatting very frequently anyway, so avoiding an identify
> command for such a low frequency event seems a bit overkill to me.



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