From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Vipin Malik <vmalik@danielind.com>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not r egister block device!
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:24:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20965.982916696@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A9595A4.D98A5CF@danielind.com>
vmalik@danielind.com said:
> Are you saying that you'll not fix this "bug" for me ;) Would saying
> please help :)
Heh. Of course I'll help. Not sure how best to go about it, though. Init
order dependencies are ugly. rd_load() should probably be one of the last
things in the boot sequence, rather than an initcall. Can you add it to
init/main.c just before mount_root()?
> > We'll have JFFS2 (with compression) ready to roll out quite soon :)
> Well, there still would be reasons to decompress a root file system
> into ramdisk and run from there, namely:
Definitely. Just pushing my new baby, that's all :)
> 3. Compressibility: I would hazard a guess that the compressibility
> obtained with compressing an entire file system image would be better
> than that obtained with just compressing individual inode data.
Yep. Actually we only compress a single page at a time
in jffs2, not even the whole inode.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-23 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-22 13:11 Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does n ot r egister block device! Vipin Malik
2001-02-22 13:18 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-22 19:22 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-22 19:00 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-22 20:18 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-22 21:32 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-22 21:55 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-22 22:41 ` Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not " Vipin Malik
2001-02-23 8:24 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-02-23 18:02 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-23 17:37 ` David Woodhouse
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2001-02-22 4:19 Vipin Malik
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2001-02-22 20:01 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-23 8:22 ` David Woodhouse
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