Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

[Marco <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>]

Tim Bird wrote:
> Marco wrote:
>> This is a second attempt at mainlining Pramfs. The first attempt was
>> back in early 2004 by MontaVista. Since then the kernel code has almost
>> been completely rewritten. So my first item on the list was porting the
>> code on a recent kernel version. After that I added the XIP support.
> 
> It's very nice to see this technology revived.
> 
> Is the information at:
> http://pramfs.sourceforge.net/
> and
> http://pramfs.sourceforge.net/pramfs-spec.html
> still valid - particularly the latter?

Yep. at 99%. I've done some modifications due to the porting and there
will be some ones due to this review. I tried to talk with Steve
Longerbeam to update the site but without success. I'd like to update it.

> 
> It would be very nice to see this get mainlined.  I believe that
> one of the main uses for this is to store crash information
> over a reboot so the next kernel (not in crashing state) can have
> a better chance of dealing with it.  As such, I think
> it's important to keep the code paths for Pramfs short, synchronous,
> and unentangled with other kernel systems (block IO, page cache, etc.).
> 

Yes, I quite agree. I think that this kind of feature would be very
useful especially for the embedded world.

Marco