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

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 07:24:33 EST


rusty@linuxcare.com.au said:
> 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), and you get much
> better compression (in fact, despite its cuteness, I believe cramfs is
> the wrong solution for everything).

JFFS doesn't run on block devices. It needs a memory device (e.g. flash
chips).

Someone's already got it working with a simple run-length compression, though.

--
dwmw2

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