NVM Express (NVMe)

wikipedia:NVMe interface specification (2011, 2014 commercially available) technology has been supported since kernel 3.3, b60503ba432b - Matthew Wilcox, 9 years ago on Fri Nov 4 15:52:51 2011 -0400: NVMe: New driver (git log)

lsmod | grep nvme
nvme                   36864  0
nvme_core              61440  5 nvme

• QEMU 2.12.0 (Apr 2018) https://www.qemu.org/2018/04/24/qemu-2-12-0/

NVMe is a flavor of SAN, but the basic unit of storage is called a namespace instead of a LUN.

Related terms

• blkid
• lsblk
• mkfs, mkswap
• Western Digital
• /dev/nvme0n1p1
• SEP back channel

See also

• NVM, NVMe
• PCI, PCI DSS, PCIe, lspci, PCI passthrough, NGFF
• SATA, SAS, ATA
• SSD, Intel Optane, NAND, V-NAND or 3D V-NAND, NVMe, NVM
• Storage: Fibre Channel, Disk arrays, Disk array shelves, Disk array controller, CD-ROM, DVD, Tape library, LTO, HDD, SSD, SCSI, iSCSI, SAS, SATA, SEDs, OPAL, Magnetic storage, WORM