FS#63769 - [archiso] Include nvme-cli in order to support secure erase

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Cypher Zealot (CypherZealot) - Saturday, 14 September 2019, 21:17 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 19:48 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To David Runge (dvzrv)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
We ought to include the package `nvme-cli` in the archiso. As it includes the **only** tool that can perform both "User Data Erase" and "Cryptographic Erase" operations on PCIe NVMe SSDs that support those operations. See nvme-format(1) and the "NVM Express Base Specification Revision 1.3c May 24, 2018 Section 5.23" for more details.

As of now, in order to securely erase an NVMe SSD before system pacstrap the nvme-cli package has to be installed onto the archiso.

Additional info:
* https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/community/nvme-cli/nvme-format.1.en
* https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nvme-cli/
* https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM-Express-1_3c-2018.05.24-Ratified.pdf
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Closed by  David Runge (dvzrv)
Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 19:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  Implemented via https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/a rchiso/-/merge_requests/14
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 19:44 GMT
@CypherZealot: Thanks for the report.

I already had this on my mental TODO for archiso, but didn't add a ticket. Thanks for the reminder! :)
I have added a ticket in our gitlab and will close this as soon as the change is merged: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/issues/20

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