Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache?

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 03:04:09 EST


Hi!

> The only problem with JFFS is that it doesn't do compression, so there's
> a lot to be said for using cramfs if you have space constraints (and in
> embedded devices, if you don't have space constraints you're doing
> something wrong ;). So mixture of ramfs, cramfs and JFFS can be a good
> thing.

Thanx for pointer. I'm using initrd with ext2 on my philips velo (and
was thinking about starting using _compressed_ ext2 on it), but cramfs
seems like much better solution. I'd love to have some flash-rom,
unfortunately machine has none :-(.

Anyway, is there read/write compressed driver, currently?
                                                                Pavel

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