Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:05:48 -0700 | From | "Jared Hulbert" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/10] AXFS: axfs_super.c |
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> From this it would appear that if the region data can't be mapped XIP (i.e. > it is compressed or on a block device), it is cached in its entirety in RAM?
That is correct.
> This implies for block devices that the entire filesystem metadata has to be > cached in RAM. This severely limits the size of AXFS filesystems when using > block devices, or the else memory usage will be excessive.
This is where 64bit squashfs could be a better fit.
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