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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI...
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:36:38 -0400
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J=C3=B6rn 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,=
=20
because they are not as well suited to flash storage.

The NVMHCI command set (distinguished from NVMHCI, the silicon) is=20
specifically targetted towards flash.

	Jeff