> I think it would be interesting and useful for there to be devices which expose a "blob" API to a bunch of Flash on a PCIe bus, and for there to be a suitabl

> I think it would be interesting and useful for there to be devices which expose a "blob" API to a bunch of Flash on a PCIe bus, and for there to be a suitable OS API for this. We're partly there. NVMe has standardized a key-value interface for SSDs, but as with any compatibility-breaking new storage interface it's pretty much only used by and available to large cloud computing companies that can afford to rewrite their entire storage stack to take advantage of it.