1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Intel Corporation 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer, 10.\" without modification. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce at minimum a disclaimer 12.\" substantially similar to the "NO WARRANTY" disclaimer below 13.\" ("Disclaimer") and any redistribution must be conditioned upon 14.\" including a substantially similar Disclaimer requirement for further 15.\" binary redistribution. 16.\" 17.\" NO WARRANTY 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 20.\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR 21.\" A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT 22.\" HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 26.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING 27.\" IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. 29.\" 30.\" nvd driver man page. 31.\" 32.\" Author: Jim Harris <jimharris@FreeBSD.org> 33.\" 34.\" $FreeBSD$ 35.\" 36.Dd March 18, 2014 37.Dt NVD 4 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm nvd 41.Nd NVM Express disk driver 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43To compile this driver into your kernel, 44place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: 45.Bd -ragged -offset indent 46.Cd "device nvme" 47.Cd "device nvd" 48.Ed 49.Pp 50Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following lines in 51.Xr loader.conf 5 : 52.Bd -literal -offset indent 53nvme_load="YES" 54nvd_load="YES" 55.Ed 56.Sh DESCRIPTION 57The 58.Nm 59driver exposes NVM Express (NVMe) namespaces as disks to the kernel disk 60storage API. 61It depends on the 62.Xr nvme 4 63driver for notification of existing NVMe namespaces and submission of NVM 64I/O commands. 65.Pp 66Device nodes from the 67.Nm 68driver will have the format /dev/nvdX and are 69.Xr GEOM 4 70disks which can be partitioned by 71.Xr geom 8 . 72Note that device nodes from the 73.Xr nvme 4 74driver are not 75.Xr GEOM 4 76disks and cannot be partitioned. 77.Sh SEE ALSO 78.Xr GEOM 4 , 79.Xr nvme 4 , 80.Xr geom 8 , 81.Xr nvmecontrol 8 , 82.Xr disk 9 83.Sh HISTORY 84The 85.Nm 86driver first appeared in 87.Fx 9.2 . 88.Sh AUTHORS 89.An -nosplit 90The 91.Nm 92driver was developed by Intel and originally written by 93.An Jim Harris Aq Mt jimharris@FreeBSD.org , 94with contributions from Joe Golio at EMC. 95.Pp 96This man page was written by 97.An Jim Harris Aq Mt jimharris@FreeBSD.org . 98