Comment 6 for bug 1672091

Hi,
we were revisiting this case which was lost due to Rafael no more being able to look at it :-/
In the meantime nvme-cli is in main (since hirsute via bug 1889688). But nvmet-cli still isn't packaged in Debian/Ubuntu.

nvme-cli just did a major release following the last 1.x [1] into 2.0 [2].
But while there activity is super-active it seems not to have consumed the functionality of nvmet-cli. Also I see others have indeed picked it up and document it as the only [4] way or along the configfs based way [5]. And yes configfs works fine, but is more burdensome than this tool - so we should have a look.

But OTOH nvmet-cli [3] hasn't had any change since about a year, is it just stable or on the way out?

Suggestion: as the next step, one should engage with the nvmet-cli project/people to clarify if it is still active & valid and/or if plans have changed e.g. to later consume it in nvme-cli?
That shall avoid us picking up and documenting it just to then deprecate and remove it a bit later.

[1]: https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli/releases/tag/v1.16
[2]: https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli/releases/tag/v2.0
[3]: https://git.infradead.org/users/hch/nvmetcli.git
[4]: https://documentation.suse.com/de-de/sles/15-SP3/html/SLES-all/cha-nvmeof.html
[5]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_storage_devices/nvme-over-fabrics-using-rdma_managing-storage-devices