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nvd driver man page.

Author: Jim Harris <jimharris@FreeBSD.org>

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.Dd March 18, 2014 .Dt NVD 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm nvd .Nd NVM Express disk driver .Sh SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into your kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: d -ragged -offset indent .Cd "device nvme" .Cd "device nvd" .Ed

p Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following lines in .Xr loader.conf 5 : d -literal -offset indent nvme_load="YES" nvd_load="YES" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver exposes NVM Express (NVMe) namespaces as disks to the kernel disk storage API. It depends on the .Xr nvme 4 driver for notification of existing NVMe namespaces and submission of NVM I/O commands.

p Device nodes from the .Nm driver will have the format /dev/nvdX and are .Xr GEOM 4 disks which can be partitioned by .Xr geom 8 . Note that device nodes from the .Xr nvme 4 driver are not .Xr GEOM 4 disks and cannot be partitioned. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr GEOM 4 , .Xr nvme 4 , .Xr geom 8 , .Xr nvmecontrol 8 , .Xr disk 9 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Fx 9.2. .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm driver was developed by Intel and originally written by .An Jim Harris Aq jimharris@FreeBSD.org , with contributions from Joe Golio at EMC.

p This man page was written by .An Jim Harris Aq jimharris@FreeBSD.org .