Exposing storage devices as memory

Storage devices are in a period of extensive change. As they get faster and become byte-addressable by the CPU, they tend to look increasingly like ordinary memory. But they aren't memory, so it still isn't clear what the best model for accessing them should be. Adam Manzanares led a session during the memory-management track of the 2018 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit, where his proposal of a new access mechanism ran into some skepticism.

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