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Is this like booting over pxe? Is nvme tcp widely supported on motherboards?
No, this has nothing to do with your motherboard. Once you reach the boot menu you'll be able to pick your OS and alternatively
systemd-storagetm
. If you chose the the latter then your disks will be available to other machines over NVME-TCP. Just like Apple.So when it's booted it will just advertise the storage to the LAN over nvme-tcp protocol?
Not "booted", you won't be booting your full OS. It's just an option on the boot menu that launches systemd and a small program that does the magic and nothing else.
So share drive / simplified NAS, no?
Kind of... but you're directly accessing the hard drive like iSCSI does. Way less latency, no high (and slow) protocols like SMB are used.
SAN. Not NAS.
But is it running at the same time as a an OS or is it just a device without an OS running, sharing storage?
So NAS without any controls. Yay?
trivial to set up NAS with minimal overhead, plus you can boot any pc into this once it's standard, which would be nice for rescuing when you fuck something up: rather than fiddle around with rescue mode or digging out the drives you just boot into this mode and access the drives from your laptop or whatever.
It doesn't sound easier than ventoy tbh.