any need for any MTD functionality on a desktop system?

[Andy Green]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   i notice that the default kernel config shipped with FC6 selects, as
> modules, a sizable selection of options under MTD support.  is there
> anything here that's actually required on a non-embedded system that
> has no flash?  my first impression is "no" but i'm willing to be
> disabused of that notion.

Hi Robert -

I never saw anything use MTD or JFFS2 outside of onboard flash devices 
for embedded: no USB sticks or anything else AFAIK.  But since they are 
modules, isn't it okay that they build the modules by default and hardly 
anyone uses them?  For example NBD isn't widely used, but the fact there 
were modules for it in the default Fedora kernel has been really useful 
for me and nobody else had to have it taking up main memory (although I 
guess a lot of people are storing it).

-Andy