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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:53:36AM -0700, Russ Dill wrote:
> 
> > Some people think that writing a new kernel would be easy.  %^)
> > 
> > The trouble is coming up with a convenient method.  LILO stores a list
> > of blocks.  GRUB reads filesystems.  GRUB is better in the long run,
> > but harder to implement.
> 
> I've written a cramfs reader for grub, to use on the DOC, and grub works
> great on a DOC. Although the grub code is a bit ugly, and there are a
> few gotchas, writing a module is pretty straight forward. That being
> said, writing a module to load files of a journaled fs (jffs2), is a bit
> more time consuming, but as I understand yaffs is greatly optimized
> towards NAND (as apposed to NOR) flash layout and lends itself to easy
> reading (same sized blocks, no compression iirc).
> 
> If I were you, I'd use grub.

That's what I'd expect.

A question, though.  I've been doing compression tests with cramfs.
I'm finding that gzip -9 of an ext2 filesystem produces smaller images
than mkcramfs.  Have you ever compared the two?