From: crosser@average.org (Eugene Crosser)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
Date: 7 Jul 2001 17:37:52 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9i73bg$psv$1@pccross.average.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107070727030.24836-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107070727030.24836-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
>> Doesn't the approach "treat a chunk of data built into bzImage as
>> populated ramfs" look cleaner? No need to fiddle with tar format,
>> no copying data from place to place.
>
> What the hell _is_ "populated ramfs"? The thing doesn't live in array
> of blocks. Its directory structure consists of a bunch of dentries.
I am stupid. But the point still stays: having an image of pre-populated
filesystem (some other than ramfs) that you only need to load into
RAM seems more sutable than parsing tar format. Maybe (probably) I am
missing something.
Eugene
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-07 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 10:37 [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems Dave J Woolley
2001-07-04 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-04 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05 8:20 ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-05 8:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-05 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-05 13:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-05 15:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-06 7:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-06 8:45 ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-06 11:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-06 12:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-09 23:05 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-07 10:32 ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 11:32 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-07 13:37 ` Eugene Crosser [this message]
2001-07-07 13:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-07 21:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 21:44 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-07-08 7:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-08 16:46 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-09 14:40 ` Anthony DeBoer
2001-07-07 11:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 21:40 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 21:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:00 ` arjan
2001-07-07 22:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:04 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 22:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-08 2:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-12 15:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-12 16:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-12 21:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2001-07-06 5:26 Andreas Dilger
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