Re: Block devices

2008-02-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:05:52AM -0500, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: Can I boot an initramfs kernel without a block device ? Yes. Can I write a filesystem driver for a flash device that does not require a block device ? Yes. Are their any examples of something even close ? For

Block devices

2008-02-20 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
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