Jörn Engel wrote:
But like it or not, the market seems to be moving in that direction. Which means we will have "block devices" that have all the interfaces of disks and behave much like flash - modulo the crap FTL.
One driving goal behind NVMHCI was to avoid disk-originated interfaces, because they are not as well suited to flash storage.
The NVMHCI command set (distinguished from NVMHCI, the silicon) is specifically targetted towards flash.
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