Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:51:46 +0100 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: filesystem for initrd |
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:28:53PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > cramfs is nice but still read-only at the moment... You might be able > to get away with stacking ramfs on top of that.
What is easier because this ...
> If not, it shouldn't be hard to modify cramfs so that it allows > fs modifications... just stick the updated pages in RAM until > the file is unlinked or the fs is unmounted.
... will lead into problems accounting available space on the fs, since openers don't expect that they cannot write to a file anymore, just because we we are out of RAM for backing the writes.
I think unionfs will care for this kind of problems once we have it implemented in an official tree.
Regards
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