NVME-REACHABILITY-(1)

📦 version 3.2, in arch rolling

💅 nvme-reachability-associations-log — like, the manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, welcome to the nvme-reachability-associations-log page from the NVMe Manual (yes, that NVMe Manual, the one we all know and love 🫶). Sit down, grab a lil snack 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

nvme-reachability-associations-log — grab the Reachability Associations Log and show it off. it's deprecated though, so like… read the room 🙈

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nvme [<global-options>] reachability-associations-log <device>
                        [--associations-only | -a]
                        [--rae | -r]

that's the whole vibe. <device> goes in, log comes out ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk: this is a deprecated alias for nvme-log-reachability-associations(1). it exists purely so the scripts you wrote against nvme-cli versions older than 3.0 don't just crumple and cry 😭. options and behavior are identical — literally the only thing kept is the top-level command name. that's it. that's the whole job 💅

new scripts? bestie please use nvme log reachability-associations instead, no cap. this alias prints a deprecation warning on stderr and may get removed in a future release — so it's giving short-lived icon era, not forever main character energy 👑

for the full option reference, go read nvme-log-reachability-associations(1) — that's where the good stuff lives.

👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

these are defined at the top-level nvme command and they're all available to this subcommand. yes, all of them. we love a generous parent command 🌈

  • --dry-run — prints the command it would execute, but doesn't actually execute it 🙈. it's the "thinking about it" of flags.
  • --no-ioctl-probing — turns off probing for 64-bit IOCTL support. no probing, no problem ✨
  • --no-retries — kills the retry logic on transient errors. one shot, one opportunity 💀
  • -o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> — sets the reporting format to normal, tabular, 'json, or binary`. only one output format at a time, bestie — pick a lane 🎀
  • --output-format-version=<version> — picks the output format version. version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (the default) gives you more consistent and script-friendly field names. any other version? rejected. immediately. no negotiating 🚫
  • --quiet — suppresses informational messages. errors still get reported (we're not hiding the tea ☕), and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level. they literally can't coexist, it's a vibe check rule.
  • --set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] — sets libnvme library options just for this invocation. supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir. mix and match, comma-separated, go off 💜
  • --timeout=<ms> — sets the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 means wait forever with no time limit (0xffffffff). patience is a virtue or whatever 🧚
  • -v, --verbose — increases the level of detail in the output. can be specified multiple times to get even more verbose, because sometimes you do want the whole story 🔥
also! these options can be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). and a command-line flag always overrides the file. always. periodt 💅

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

No Examples

yeah. that's literally what it says. no examples. we're raw-dogging this one, bestie 😭

⭐ NVME ⭐

part of the nvme-user suite. iconic. no notes 👑

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

anyway that's the page!! sourced from the NVMe manual, dated 10/30/2026, title NVME-REACHABILITY-(1) — love that for us 🌸 go use the non-deprecated command, and stay slay ✨🫶

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