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

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 04:13:34 EST


tolkien@mizi.com said:
> I don't understand that 'JFFS ought to be able to do XIP'. There are
> some code for it?

Not yet, but it's not very difficult to do it.

tolkien@mizi.com said:
> we need to prove that the compressed fs is better than XIP in point
> of performace and less use of memory. Though we'll not use XIP, we
> must implemet it.

That makes a lot of sense, I suppose. Although it might be quicker, if
you're only after a {dis,}proof-of-concept, to knock up a read-only
filesystem which does XIP.

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dwmw2

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