Re: linux kernel without file system

David Newall
2009-01-14T14:28:21Z

Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Actually, I was thinking about reducing the footprint of my kernel by
> removing all the fs-related system calls, so the problem is not where
> the file-system is, but how to access (serial) devices without giving their
> "/dev/..." name.

That's fighting the UNIX design, in "which everything is a file." You
can remove all of the disk-based filesystems, but if you try to remove
open, close, read or write there'll be almost nothing that you can
usefully do.