Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:36:38 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Implementing NVMHCI... |
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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.
Jeff
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