From: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
To: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth.johansson@etx.ericsson.se>
Cc: mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:37:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020924183704.GB3074@buici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1032889498.1600.22.camel@spawn>
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:44:58PM +0200, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 19:14, Marc Singer wrote:
> > That's what isn't clear. I made two filesystems with the same
> > contents. One cramfs and the other ext2. The ext2 filesystem
> > compressed was smaller than the cramfs. My understanding is that both
> > must be uncompressed into a ramfs to be used. If this is correct,
> > then the only comparable consideration is the size of the compressed
> > data.
>
> cramfs is a read only filesystem not an archive format like zip or tar
> so you do not have to copy the data into another filesystem to use it.
> You use cramfs instead of initrd+filesystem.
That isn't really the issue here. We're talking about using gzip'd
ext2 versus cramfs to do initrd. The thing is that in my tests,
cramfs images are larger than compressed ext2 images. Not what I
would expect.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-24 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-23 9:20 jffs2 and Doc 2000 eylon eyal
2002-09-24 0:03 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? Charles Manning
2002-09-24 3:44 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 3:58 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading Charles Manning
2002-09-24 4:44 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 7:53 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 16:53 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 16:59 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 17:14 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 17:21 ` Brian J. Fox
2002-09-24 17:30 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 18:33 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 17:44 ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-09-24 18:37 ` Marc Singer [this message]
2002-09-24 18:47 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 20:22 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 20:41 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-24 7:23 ` Nick Bane
2002-09-24 16:55 ` Marc Singer
2002-09-24 18:23 ` Nick Bane
2002-09-24 20:53 ` Interest in DOC and YAFFS? Charles Manning
2002-09-24 22:46 ` Christian Gan
2002-09-25 7:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-25 7:09 Interest in DOC and YAFFS? --> YAFFS bootloading Srinivasan.Ramasubramaniam
2002-09-25 8:38 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-25 13:34 ` Henrik Nordström
2002-09-25 16:34 ` Russ Dill
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