XNVME-PIOC(1)

📦 version 0.7.5, in alpine 3.24, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 XNVME-PIOC(1) — the xnvme pioc page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from the xNVMe manual, and it's literally about yeeting your own custom IO Command through the stack. group chat, gather round 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

xnvme-pioc — Pass a used-defined IO Command through

(yes bestie, "used-defined" is what the original says, i am not touching it, it's iconic and i refuse 🙈)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xnvme pioc <uri> [<args>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Pass a used-defined IO Command through.

that's the whole description. short, sweet, main character energy. 💅

👑 REQUIRED 👑

you gotta give it this one, no skipping:

  • <uri> — the Device URI. examples given: '/dev/nvme0n1', '0000:01:00.1', '10.9.8.1.8888', '\.PhysicalDrive1'

⭐ OPTIONAL ⭐

all the little knobs and dials, no cap:

  • --cdw0 0xNUM — Command Dword0
  • --cdw1 0xNUM — Command Dword1
  • --cdw2 0xNUM — Command Dword2
  • --cdw3 0xNUM — Command Dword3
  • --cdw4 0xNUM — Command Dword4
  • --cdw4 0xNUM — Command Dword4
  • --cdw5 0xNUM — Command Dword5
  • --cdw6 0xNUM — Command Dword6
  • --cdw7 0xNUM — Command Dword7
  • --cdw8 0xNUM — Command Dword8
  • --cdw9 0xNUM — Command Dword9
  • --cdw10 0xNUM — Command Dword10
  • --cdw11 0xNUM — Command Dword11
  • --cdw12 0xNUM — Command Dword12
  • --cdw13 0xNUM — Command Dword13
  • --cdw14 0xNUM — Command Dword14
  • --cdw15 0xNUM — Command Dword15
  • --opcode 0xNUM — Command opcode
  • --nsid 0xNUM — Namespace Identifier for Command Construction
  • --data-input FILE — Path to data input-file
  • --data-output FILE — Path to data output-file
  • --data-nbytes NUM — Data size in bytes
  • --meta-input FILE — Path to meta input-file
  • --meta-output FILE — Path to meta output-file
  • --meta-nbytes NUM — Meta size in bytes
  • --verbose — Increase output info
  • --subnqn STRING — Subsystem NQN of the NVMe over Fabrics endpoint e.g. 'nqn.2022-06.io.xnvme:ctrlnode1'
  • --hostnqn STRING — The host NQN to use when connecting to NVMe over Fabrics controllers
  • --be STRING — xNVMe backend, e.g. 'linux', 'spdk', 'fbsd', 'macos', 'posix', 'windows'
  • --dev-nsid 0xNUM — Namespace Identifier for Device Handle
  • --admin STRING — xNVMe admin. command-interface, e.g. 'nvme', 'block'
  • --mem STRING — xNVMe buffer/memory manager
  • --direct NUM — Bypass layers
  • --help — Show usage / help
🫠 real talk: --cdw4 0xNUM shows up twice in the option list up there, both times saying "Command Dword4". not me editing it, not me deleting it — i'm telling you exactly what the page says, and the page says it twice. periodt.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Full documentation at: <https://xnvme.io/> 💖

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Written by Simon A. F. Lund <simon.lund@samsung.com> on behalf of Samsung

okay that's the whole page, you ate that, slay 💅✨

and a little sign-off for the fine print bestie: this is xNVMe, from 09 September 2024 — go build something iconic with it 🎀🦋🌸

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