what i found is that [in practice] embedded devices
read in the [netbsd] kernel image and loadable drivers
from the flash disk, and that should suffice do a
mount of the filesystem from across the network.
regards
-kamal

> 
> Furthermore, it's basically a solution looking for a
> problem.  It is
> *trivial* to arrange for your embedded device to
> write so infrequently
> that wear-levelling isn't an issue (hint: if you're
> getting anything but
> configuration information from a read/write
> filesystem, you designed your
> software wrong), and besides, many increasingly
> common types of flash do
> wear-levelling internally, for example all
> CompactFlash devices.
> 
> Of course, I suppose the Linux solution is to use
> CompactFlash and a
> read-write JFFS root filesystem because, after all,
> it's more important
> to use all the correct buzzwords than it is to
> actually have any clue about
> what you're doing.
> 
> -- 
>  Thor Lancelot Simon	                               
>       tls@rek.tjls.com
>    But as he knew no bad language, he had called him
> all the names of common
>  objects that he could think of, and had screamed:
> "You lamp!  You towel!  You
>  plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud


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