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

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 18:29:29 EST


In article <20000716024905.73721816F@halfway>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au> wrote:
>
>If you've already got a filesystem, may I recommend you drop cramfs,
>and use jffs over readonly compressed loopback? That way you don't
>need the cramfs code (or its in-built limitations)

Ehh..

At least cramfs works. I have about ten reports of loopback not working
lately, and I'm likely to disable it completely unless somebody steps in
to maintain the damn thing.

                Linus

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