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by londons_explore 980 days ago
NVME's allow namespaces to be made - effectively letting multiple users all share an NVME device without interfering with each other.
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A note for those unaware, consumer grade NVME devices (basically all m.2 formfactor drives from my experience) only support a single namespace. If you want to explore creating multiple namespaces you will need an enterprise grade u.2 drive.

Some u.2 drives even support thin provisioning, like how a hypervisor treats a sparse disk file but for physical hardware.