Re: Block devices
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2008-02-21 16:48:42
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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.