Messages in this thread | | | From | "mirabilos" <> | Subject | Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ? | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:36:05 -0000 |
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> > you could try using jffs2 on a RAM-simulated MTD partition. i think > > that would work but i have not tried it.. > > It works. Most of the early testing and development was done on it. It > wouldn't give you dynamic sizing like ramfs though. > > It would be nice to have a version of ramfs which compresses pages into a > separate backing store when they're unused. Shame somebody nicked the name
great... especially for my boot/rootdisks on an 8/16MB system which start swapon right in the /linuxrc
> 'cramfs' for something else, really :)
This should be names cromfs as IIRC it isn't writable.
> > But I'm confused. Padraig, if you have no backing store, where do the > initial contents of your root filesystem come from?
Netboot? Floppies? (as for me)
-mirabilos
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