Messages in this thread | | | From | "mirabilos" <> | Subject | Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ? | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:19:57 -0000 |
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> > btw I get my initial root filesystem from a compact flash that can be > > accessed just like a hardisk. It's writeable also like a harddisk, but > > we boot with it readonly, and only mount it rw if we want to save > > config or whatever. We definitely wouldn't swap to it as it has > > limited erase/write cycles. The filesystem is compressed ext2. > > Why copy it into RAM? Why not use cramfs and either turn the writable > directories into symlinks into a ramfs which you create at boot time, or > union-mount a ramfs over the top of it?
Hey! SOunds great! How to do it? I tried to # mount --bind the directories but they do not show me both entries. I have romfs root and tmpfs.
-mirabilos
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