partial (largely untested) memory block device and tar file system support

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+a block_device is a block device such as a disk or a partition that has been
+seen since the last boot. when a driver detects a device, it should check if
+a block_device with that id has already been created, and if so, reuse it.
+
+eventually, i would like to implement kernel-space exceptions and use those
+instead of having functions return an io_result, since it's a bit unwieldy
+to propogate those results as is.