# Real GPUDirect Storage support

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/real-gpudirect-storage-support/212355>\
**Category:** CUDA Setup and Installation\
**Tags:** kernel, cuda, gds\
**Created:** [April 22, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/real-gpudirect-storage-support/212355 "2022-04-22T23:07:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/real-gpudirect-storage-support/212355/1 "2022-04-22T23:07:19Z")

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Hello. Is there any real step-by-step guide how to install (or build+install) GDS? Right now it looks like a nightmare and this repo looks abandoned since 2021:

> **[GitHub - NVIDIA/gds-nvidia-fs: NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage Driver](https://github.com/NVIDIA/gds-nvidia-fs)**
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> NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage Driver

I would like to have GDS on my machine with RTX A4000 on Gentoo Linux with 5.17 kernel (I could rollback to 5.4 if needed). Is there any chance? It looked very promising for my bachelor work, but getting things done doesn’t look very friendly.