From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] Pramfs: Include files Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:33:20 +0200 Message-ID: <200906222033.20883.arnd@arndb.de> References: <4A33A7EC.6070008@gmail.com> <200906221317.04166.arnd@arndb.de> <4A3FC7F1.5050108@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A3FC7F1.5050108@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Marco Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Linux FS Devel , Linux Embedded , Linux Kernel On Monday 22 June 2009, Marco wrote: > > Sorry, I meant it's not currently possible. At the moment the only way > to use it as rootfs it's to copy all the data in an already mounted > (empty) ram partition and reboot. However it's not my first item on my > todo list because I think that it's possible to use it as rootfs but it > isn't the standard use for this fs. Well, it doesn't have to work right away. What I'm asking to define the data structures in a way that keeps the layout stable across kernel updates. Since a future version of the file system might support cross-endian image creation, it would be good to define the data structures in a fixed endian mode already, so you don't have to change it in the future. Arnd <><