linux-kernel - Re: Implementing NVMHCI...

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <49FA3606.50808@garzik.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:36:38 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
CC:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>,
	Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@...s-3g.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@...gle.com>,
	Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI...

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


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/