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minus-squarejollyrogue@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoNVMe drives can be partitioned by the hardware. There could be multiple drives on a drive and n# is the hardware partition.
minus-squareSpaghettiMaster@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoNamespace isn’t it? Are there any reasonable use cases for it
minus-squarebertlewirth@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoWell, for example, you need multiple partitions on a system drive. Such as swap, boot and the main partition for the OS
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoThe namespaces are generally not used for that, since partition table does the job. Nvme bakes in a lot of “just in case” functions that fancy storage engineers imagine a use case for that are in practice superfluous.
minus-squarejollyrogue@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoThat’s the name of it. 🙂 I was letting a dog outside and couldn’t remember the technical name. Under-provisioning the drive is the most common usage I’ve seen. Maybe passing it directly to a VM, but I haven’t tried that.
NVMe drives can be partitioned by the hardware.
There could be multiple drives on a drive and n# is the hardware partition.
Namespace isn’t it? Are there any reasonable use cases for it
Well, for example, you need multiple partitions on a system drive. Such as swap, boot and the main partition for the OS
The namespaces are generally not used for that, since partition table does the job.
Nvme bakes in a lot of “just in case” functions that fancy storage engineers imagine a use case for that are in practice superfluous.
That’s the name of it. 🙂 I was letting a dog outside and couldn’t remember the technical name.
Under-provisioning the drive is the most common usage I’ve seen.
Maybe passing it directly to a VM, but I haven’t tried that.