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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:40:58AM -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > The embedded people already use them
> >on flash which is a little dumb, but now we add even more cludge for
> >a non-block based access.
>
> Please justify your assertion that using cramfs on flash is dumb.
> What would be not dumb? In an embedded system with addressable Flash
> the linear addressing cramfs is simple and elegant solution.

Have to agree with Jared here, cramfs is a perfectly sensible thing to
use on many platforms.

Adding the ability to make particular files XIP on those platforms is
also quite reasonable.

The alternative would be to add a whole new filesystem to the kernel
(effectively obsoleting cramfs) just to add XIP support or to compile
in a second filesystem (ext2 w/XIP) just for a few files.

Keeping cramfs as a simple example filesystem is really not all that
worthwhile, given it's not much of an example.

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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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