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From: David H. Lynch Jr.
Subject: Block devices
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 12:05 am

Sometime recently it seems to have become possible to disable the
whole block device subsystem.
    Though in my tests I can't quit build with it disabled.

     Anyway, for an embedded device this might be appealing.
    how does this interact with initramfs and flash ?
   
    Can I boot an initramfs kernel without a block device ?
    Can I write a filesystem driver for a flash device that does not
require a block device ?
    Are their any examples of something even close ?

   

      







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From: Christoph Hellwig
Subject: Re: Block devices
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 9:48 am

For that particular flash case there's just jffs2 in the kernel tree,
with some more flash filesystems under development.  You can of
course have network and in-memory filesystems aswell.

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