libnvme(9)

πŸ“¦ version 3.2, in arch rolling

πŸ’– libnvme(9) β€” the API Manual, bestie edition πŸ’–

Okay so real quick before we dive in: this is a page from libnvme, the API manual, section 9. It's short, it's sweet, and it's literally just one struct. Let's go 🫢


✨ NAME ✨

struct nvme_feat_host_behavior β€” Host Behavior Support, as a Data Structure. That's the whole vibe. It's the struct that holds all your host-behavior-feature bits in one cute little bundle πŸŽ€


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the shape of it, exactly as it lives in the header β€” no cap, copy it character for character:

struct nvme_feat_host_behavior {
    __u8 acre;
    __u8 etdas;
    __u8 lbafee;
    __u8 hdisns;
    __le16 cdfe;
    __u8 rsvd6[506];
 };

So yeah β€” four single bytes, then a little-endian 16-bit field, then a big ol' 506-byte reserved chunk living its best life at the end πŸ¦‹


πŸ‘‘ Members πŸ‘‘

Let's do a little meet-and-greet with every single field, because everyone gets their moment:

  • acre β€” Advanced Command Retry Enable πŸ”₯
  • etdas β€” Extended Telemetry Data Area 4 Supported πŸ“Š
  • lbafee β€” LBA Format Extension Enable πŸ’…
  • hdisns β€” Host Dispersed Namespace Support 🌈
  • cdfe β€” Copy Descriptor Formats Enable πŸ“‹
  • rsvd6 β€” Reserved πŸ™ˆ (it's reserved, bestie, don't touch it, it's not doing anything and that's its whole job)
Side note, and I mean this with love: rsvd6 is 506 bytes because that offset math has to land right. Never repurpose reserved fields, that's how you end up in a group chat with the kernel maintainers πŸ’€

Okay that's genuinely the whole page β€” short king behavior, honestly. This was struct nvme_feat_host_behavior from the libnvme(9) API Manual, dated October 2026. Slay, go populate your host behavior feature bits, and drink some water πŸ’œβœ¨

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