Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:32:08 +0200 | From | "Frans Meulenbroeks" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem |
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Jared, nice work!
I've also read your paper from the linux symposium (http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/hulbert-reprint.pdf)
A few questions: - how does this benchmark compared to cramfs and squashfs in a NAND-only system (or is it just not a good plan to use this with NAND-only (of course I won't get XIP with NAND, I understand that) - would axfs be suitable as a filesystem on a ram disk?
Background for the last question is that if you do not have the memory to retain all pages uncompressed (as you would with ramfs), this could be a nice intermediate format. Furthermore compared to ramfs, a filesystem on a ramdisk does not need the initialisation during startup (decompressing the cpio file, creating the files, copying the data), so when it comes to boot times a filesystem on a ramdisk (e.g. axfs) could be a better choice.
Appreciate your feedback.
Frans.
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