Linux Turning Off The Light - The LightNVM Subsystem To Be Removed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Turning Off The Light - The LightNVM Subsystem To Be Removed

Merged to the mainline Linux kernel six years ago was the LightNVM subsystem as part of Linux 4.4 LTS around "Open-Channel SSDs". That LightNVM code is now slated for removal with the upcoming Linux 5.15 cycle...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Dropping-LightNVM

[tildearrow]

Typo:

However, LightNVM has been effectively superseded by the Zoed Namespace (ZNS) command set with NVMe

[rogerx]

Great!

Cannot wait for deleting SystemD stuff next!

[Linuxxx]

Off-topic, but still interesting:

When & how will Linux have the equivalent of Microsoft's DirectStorage technology?

[F.Ultra]

Great!

Cannot wait for deleting SystemD stuff next!

Good luck with that (systemd is not part of the Linux kernel).

[F.Ultra]

Off-topic, but still interesting:

When & how will Linux have the equivalent of Microsoft's DirectStorage technology?

The WIndows kernel implementation of DirectStorage in W11 sounds very much like Linux:s p2pdma: https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/ev..._how_what_.pdf and the user space side of it almost sounds like io_uring, but then I have zero experience with DirectStorage.

[cjcox]

Great!

Cannot wait for deleting SystemD stuff next!

Since it's not in the kernel, I guess you can consider it removed? (done!)