From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@dlasys.net>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
linuxppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Block devices
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:48:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080221164836.GA4209@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BD22D0.9060008@dlasys.net>
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 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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-21 16:48 UTC|newest]
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2008-02-21 7:05 Block devices David H. Lynch Jr.
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