Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:49:00 +0000 |
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orzel@kde.org said: > Does it mean that NONE of the existing embedded linux is able to use > a ROM directly as a filesystem ?? (either root fs or not)
Out of the box, no. XIP isn't that interesting. Most boxes have flash, and flash is more expensive than RAM - so compression is more useful than XIP in many cases. Obviously the two are mutually exclusive.
Writing to an XIP filesystem is fairly hard too.
-- dwmw2
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