Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 May 2003 14:42:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86 |
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, May 06 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 18:23, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > According to Alan it's nearly possible to configure the block layer out > > > entirely, which would be a good thing to associate with a CONFIG_DISK option > > > too. > > > > David Woodhouse I believe.. > > Are we talking about everything below submit_bh/bio? Shouldn't be too > hard to write a small no-block.c for that...
The idea is to configure out everything not needed when only NFS and/or JFFS (which doesn't rely on the block layer to work) are used. Pretty useful for networked or embedded machines.
Nicolas
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