NVD(4) | FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual | NVD(4) |
NAME
nvd — NVM Express disk driverSYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into your kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device nvme
device nvd
device nvd
Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following lines in loader.conf(5):
nvme_load="YES" nvd_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The nvd driver exposes NVM Express (NVMe) namespaces as disks to the kernel disk storage API. It depends on the nvme(4) driver for notification of existing NVMe namespaces and submission of NVM I/O commands.Device nodes from the nvd driver will have the format /dev/nvdX and are GEOM(4) disks which can be partitioned by geom(8). Note that device nodes from the nvme(4) driver are not GEOM(4) disks and cannot be partitioned.
HISTORY
The nvd driver first appeared in FreeBSD 9.2.AUTHORS
The nvd driver was developed by Intel and originally written by <jimharris@FreeBSD.org>, with contributions from Joe Golio at EMC.This man page was written by
<jimharris@FreeBSD.org>.March 18, 2014 | FreeBSD |