Re: What File System supports Application XIP

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 05:47:16 EST


On Donnerstag, 9. September 2004 10:55, colin wrote:
> I know that Cramfs has supported Application XIP. Is there any other FS that
> also supports it? Ramdisk? Ramfs? Romfs?

On http://linuxvm.org/Patches/, you can find a file system called xip2fs,
that uses an ext2 read-only fs for XIP. The code there works only if the
backing memory is a zSeries DCSS memory segment, but it should be fairly
easy to port to some other low-level memory provider.

Arnd <><

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