From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Ramdisk trivial question From: Jaap-Jan Boor To: "Ing.Gianfranco Morandi" Cc: LinuxPPC In-Reply-To: <005601c3b275$39446fd0$0700a8c0@pc005> References: <005601c3b275$39446fd0$0700a8c0@pc005> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1069671695.31339.151.camel@linpc003.aimsys.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:01:36 +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi Gianfranco, Isn't busybox a good option? A large part of your ramdisk is filled with binaries and libraries (glibc is big) which can be included in a single static binary (busybox) Jaap-Jan On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 11:25, Ing.Gianfranco Morandi wrote: > Dear friends, > > in our project we have always used the NFS to run linux over an 8260 custom > board. Now since the activity is almost stable we have tried to build the > root filesystem on ramdisk. Obviously we have followed all the main rules > which are contained into several good books, but an important choice is > always left to the user: " what are the components of filesystem?". The > answer to this of course depend on several factors which are not the scope > of this e-mail. > > The question is: The ELDK 2.01 package (which is currently being used in our > system) is too large to be fitted into a ramdisk, while the minimum > filesystem does not allow to be used in our midrange application. Does > anybody have or can indicate where can we find an almost complete filesystem > scheme (for instance based on the ELDK packages)? > > Any help would be apreciated > > Many thanks > > Gianfranco > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/