NVME_INIT_GET_FEATURES_NS_METADATA-LIBNVME3(2)

🌸 nvme_init_get_features_ns_metadata 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the libnvme API manual, section 9 (yep, the kernel/API-ish vibe, iykyk). we're talking about nvme_init_get_features_ns_metadata — and listen, the name is so long that the man page header literally gives up halfway and prints it as nvme_init_ge..._ns_metadata(9). iconic behaviour honestly. she's verbose and she knows it. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

nvme_init_get_features_ns_metadata — Initializes the passthru command for Get Features - Namespace Metadata 🦋

like, that's her whole job. one function, one purpose, no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void nvme_init_get_features_ns_metadata (struct libnvme_passthru_cmd
*cmd , enum nvme_get_features_sel sel , struct nvme_host_metadata *data
);

that's the whole signature, copied exactly, don't @ me 💖 note the void return — she does her work through the buffer you hand her and she does not return a value back to you. main character energy: doesn't report back, just leaves everything changed. 😭

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• cmd — the Passthru command you're gonna use. this is the buffer she sets up for you, so hand her a struct libnvme_passthru_cmd and let her cook 🍓
• sel — Select which type of attribute to return, see enum nvme_get_features_sel. yes bestie, you pick the flavour of attribute, the enum tells you what's on the menu ✨
• data — Host Metadata data buffer, see struct nvme_host_metadata. this is where the metadata hangs out — it's a struct nvme_host_metadata and she's just vibing there 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically: she Initializes the passthru command buffer for the Get Features command, with the FID value NVME_FEAT_FID_NS_METADATA. 🔥

that's it. that's the whole thing. the buffer goes in, the Get Features scaffolding comes out, and the FID is set to NVME_FEAT_FID_NS_METADATA so everybody downstream knows exactly which feature we're asking about. slay. 💅

ngl, the fact that this one is basically "prep the command so it's ready to fire" is the whole point — she's setup, not execution. don't expect her to send anything anywhere, because the original page doesn't say she does, and we do not invent lore here. 🌈

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🎀 cute sign-off 🎀

this lil page is from the libnvme API manual, dated October 2026, and in the footer it prints out as nvme_init_get_features_ns_nvme_init_ge..._ns_metadata(9) — yes, even longer and even more truncated than the top, and honestly? she ate. 💜 go forth and initialize those passthru commands, bestie. ⭐🧚🌸