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

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 11:04:55 EST


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> Cramfs is ugly, but JFFS over compressed loopback is not the answer.

JFFS over loopback is not even possible. JFFS doesn't work on block devices.

> Philipp Rumpf did a compression hack for JFFS so you can just run pure
> JFFS over MTD.

Prumpf's compression for JFFS isn't so much of a hack - JFFS was actually
designed with the idea that compression would be added.

> For an embedded box combine that with RAMFS and you can
> ifdef out the entire block layer.

If you know your way around the VM code well enough, that is.
That was the point at which I gave up.

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dwmw2

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