From: "Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
"Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
tim.bird@am.sony.com, cotte@de.ibm.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] AXFS: axfs_super.c
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:05:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6934efce0808212005h30fa16d8w48833e8a0becfd8c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AE19AD.1020209@lougher.demon.co.uk>
> From this it would appear that if the region data can't be mapped XIP (i.e.
> it is compressed or on a block device), it is cached in its entirety in RAM?
That is correct.
> This implies for block devices that the entire filesystem metadata has to be
> cached in RAM. This severely limits the size of AXFS filesystems when using
> block devices, or the else memory usage will be excessive.
This is where 64bit squashfs could be a better fit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-22 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 5:45 [PATCH 06/10] AXFS: axfs_super.c Jared Hulbert
2008-08-21 8:55 ` Carsten Otte
2008-08-21 9:04 ` Sven Wegener
2008-08-21 11:27 ` Sven Wegener
2008-08-21 14:54 ` Sven Wegener
2008-08-22 1:43 ` Phillip Lougher
2008-08-22 3:05 ` Jared Hulbert [this message]
2008-08-22 16:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-22 17:37 ` Phillip Lougher
2008-08-22 17:42 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-22 19:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-22 17:43 ` Jared Hulbert
2008-08-22 19:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-22 12:07 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2008-10-29 13:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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