From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Capricelli <orzel@kde.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:49:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116.1008265740@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011213163912.5741223CCD@persephone.dmz.logatique.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20011213163912.5741223CCD@persephone.dmz.logatique.fr> <20011213160007.D998D23CCB@persephone.dmz.logatique.fr> <066801c183f2$53f90ec0$5601010a@prefect>
orzel@kde.org said:
> Does it mean that NONE of the existing embedded linux is able to use
> a ROM directly as a filesystem ?? (either root fs or not)
Out of the box, no. XIP isn't that interesting. Most boxes have flash, and
flash is more expensive than RAM - so compression is more useful than XIP
in many cases. Obviously the two are mutually exclusive.
Writing to an XIP filesystem is fairly hard too.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-13 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-13 16:02 Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently Thomas Capricelli
2001-12-13 16:22 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 16:41 ` Thomas Capricelli
2001-12-13 17:10 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 18:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-13 18:14 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 18:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-13 18:52 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 19:41 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-13 20:09 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
[not found] ` <08d701c18412/mnt/tmp/sendmee91d2c0601010a@prefect>
2001-12-18 1:27 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-14 11:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2001-12-13 17:49 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-12-13 18:06 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-13 20:52 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-14 9:45 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-14 15:27 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-14 16:51 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-14 17:02 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-14 17:03 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-14 17:12 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-14 17:16 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-14 17:27 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-16 9:51 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-01-23 8:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] <20011214072540.D7457@duron.intern.kubla.de>
2001-12-17 13:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-18 12:10 ` Helge Hafting
2001-12-18 14:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-18 14:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-18 15:21 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-12-18 20:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-18 16:27 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-18 17:05 ` Herman Oosthuysen
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