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 ? F

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 i

Re: 64bit offsets for block devices ?

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:07:57PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > Don't you think that we will run into problems anyway because soon > > there will be raid systems with a couple of Terrabytes of space to > > waste for mp3's ;-) > > A couple of terabytes is fine. That's 32 bits of blocks.