Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:26:02 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache? |
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On Wed Jul 26, 2000 at 04:35:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > >If you've already got a filesystem, may I recommend you drop cramfs, > > >and use jffs over readonly compressed loopback? That way you don't > > >need the cramfs code (or its in-built limitations) > > > > Ehh.. > > > > At least cramfs works. I have about ten reports of loopback not working > > lately, and I'm likely to disable it completely unless somebody steps in > > to maintain the damn thing. > > Cramfs is ugly, but JFFS over compressed loopback is not the answer. Philipp > Rumpf did a compression hack for JFFS so you can just run pure JFFS over > MTD. For an embedded box combine that with RAMFS and you can ifdef out the > entire block layer.
Unless you use disk-on-module (flash that plugs into an IDE connector), since JFFS is no longer capable of working with a block device...
-Erik
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