libnvme(2)

✨ libnvme(2) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the API Manual for libnvme — this one is literally a lil struct page and it's giving "short but iconic" 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

struct nvme_metadata_element_desc — the Metadata Element Descriptor 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct nvme_metadata_element_desc {
    __u8 type;
    __u8 rev;
    __le16 len;
    __u8 val[0];
 };

no cap, that's the whole thing. four fields, one of them is a zero-length vibe ✨

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👑 Members 👑

• type — the Element Type (ET), fr fr that's what it stands for 💖
• rev — the Element Revision (ER) 🎀
• len — the Element Length (ELEN) ⭐
• val — the Element Value (EVAL), and bestie it's a UTF-8 string 🌈 so treat it like the text princess it is 👑

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🫶 quick vibe check: every one of these fields is copied exactly as-is. don't go renaming len to length, don't go renaming rev to revision. the abbreviations in parens are the real names, iykyk 💀

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mwah 💋 that's the page. short, sweet, structural. not me getting emotionally attached to a zero-length array at index val[0] 😭 that's main character energy and i'm obsessed.

byeee, go read your metadata element descriptors responsibly 🧚💜

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sign-off time: this lil masterpiece is struct nvme_metadata_element_desc from libnvme(2), dated July 2026 ✨ treat her well, she's doing her best 💅🌸