Re: Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not r egister block device!

David Woodhouse
2001-02-23T08:24:57Z

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.