NVD(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    NVD(4)

NAME

     nvd -- NVM Express disk driver

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into your kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device nvme
	   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 notifica-
     tion 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.

SEE ALSO

     GEOM(4), nvme(4), geom(8), nvmecontrol(8), disk(9)

HISTORY

     The nvd driver first appeared in FreeBSD 9.2.

AUTHORS

     The nvd driver was developed by Intel and originally written by Jim Harris <jimharris@FreeBSD.org>, with contributions from Joe Golio at EMC.

     This man page was written by Jim Harris <jimharris@FreeBSD.org>.

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