• bertlewirth@lemy.lol
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    10 days ago

    Well, for example, you need multiple partitions on a system drive. Such as swap, boot and the main partition for the OS

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      9 days ago

      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.