> On 27 Jul 2018, at 17:29, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 7/27/18 7:38 , Jan Paul wrote:
>> Given the amazing progress Robert has made on making the new Kaby lake
>> machines work with SmartOS (huge kudos!),
>> I'd like to raise a question related to us "small scale" hobbyists HW needs.
>>
>> Given the fact the NUCs seem to be still the most efficient small lab box
>> for home SmartOS playing and those are mostly NVME only machines.
>> I found that getting NVME 1.2 M2 SSDs is almost impossible as most of the
>> NVMEs I've been able to get are 1.3 ones.
>>
>> Is there any plan on up-reving the Illumos nvme driver with the new version
>> support?
>
> Yes, that's on the TODO list.
Perfect!
>
>> I so far workaround it via setting the strict-version=0 in nvme.conf and the
>> system so far works, but I just wanted to bring this question up so
>> we can get some feedback on it.
>
> That's good to know. It should usually work and we maybe should relax
> that strict version check to only be based on major versions. Which NVMe
> 1.3 parts are you using?
>
Samsung 970EVO 250G
it seems to be pretty happy with the workaround (so far about 10 hours of
runtime on SmartOS).
> Thanks,
> Robert
-Jan
>
>
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