In this excerpt, Chapter 9, from the book, the author describes how kernel device drivers interact with system hardware and how developers can write device drivers and use them in their applications.

A remote NVMe block device exported via an NVMe over Fabrics network using TCP. Version 5.0 of the Linux kernel brought with it many wonderful features, one of which was the introduction of NVMe over ...

One of the highly debated subjects with Windows and Linux is with device support. The two have different methods of how drivers are created and implemented into the operating system.

I've recently become interested in a Windows driver called HttpDisk which allows mounting of disk images over HTTP. The closest thing I could find for Linux was NBD (Network Block Device). Is ...