linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer

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Message-ID: <17931.1156439907@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:18:27 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer 

Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:

> CONFIG_BLOCK=n will only be for the "the kernel must become as fast as 
> possible, and I really know what I'm doing" people.

It's not a speed thing so much as a space thing.

David
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