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From: David Updegraff <dave@cray.com>
To: robin.gilks@tait.co.nz (Robin Gilks)
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org (linuxppc embedded)
Subject: Re: CRAMFS or SQUASHFS
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:39:37 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306032339.SAA37882@engcafe.us.cray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EDD296F.FA278C9C@tait.co.nz> from "Robin Gilks" at Jun 04, 2003 11:04:15 AM


We ended up with squashfs since it gave better compression, better runtime
performance, and -- most importantly for us -- the 'mksquashfs' suite is
easy to compile up on non-Linux unixes, and it handles endiannes issues.

>
>
> Greetings
>
> I've been trying to determine the best Flash based *_read-only_* compressed
> filesystem for an embedded system.
>
> I can find nothing about CRAMFS - not even what it stands for - is it CRAM as in
> squeeze it all in or Compressed RAM meaning it uses loads of RAM to expand into.
> Just a hint in the right direction here would help!!
>
> For SQUASHFS, I'm unsure as to how mature it is and what its memory overhead is
> since its using zlib - would the discussions about sharing zlib workspace be
> relevant here as well?
>
> Does anyone have a horror story particular to either of these technologies?
>
> Many thanks...
>
> --
> Robin Gilks
> Senior Design Engineer              Phone: (+64)(3) 357 1569
> Tait Electronics                          Fax  :  (+64)(3) 359 4632
> PO Box 1645 Christchurch        Email : robin.gilks@tait.co.nz
> New Zealand
>
>
>


--
Dave Updegraff, Cray Inc. / dave@cray.com / 218-525-1154

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-03 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-03 23:04 CRAMFS or SQUASHFS Robin Gilks
2003-06-03 23:39 ` David Updegraff [this message]
2003-06-04  0:31 ` Eugene Surovegin

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