nvd

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

Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following lines in loader.conf(5):

nvme_load="YES"
nvd_load="YES"

The nvd driver exposes NVM Express (NVMe) namespaces as disks to the kernel disk storage API. It depends on the nvme(4) driver for notification of existing NVMe namespaces and submission of NVM I/O commands.

nvme(4), nvmecontrol(8), disk(9).

The nvd driver first appeared in FreeBSD 9.2.

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⟩.