Linux Makes Progress On Prepping NVMe-Over-Fabrics Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Makes Progress On Prepping NVMe-Over-Fabrics Support

Initial patches were published this week for adding initial NVMe-over-Fabrics support for the Linux kernel as set out by the NVMe 1.2b specification. This target implementation is the basics of making this new specification a reality and one of the first public implementations...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-NVMe-Fabrics-Support

[wizard69]

Interesting technology! Makes me wonder if Thunder Bolt will be supported as a fabric. It would be nice to be able to hook up such external drives to a low cost port.

[pal666]

Makes me wonder if Thunder Bolt will be supported as a fabric

thunderbolt is pcie expansion, it is already supported without fabric

[dweigert]

Oh, this is going to turn big storage vendors on their heads, can't wait to see the fallout :-)