From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Viable PPC platform?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 00:31:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060509223113.5715D353DB1@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 2006 10:15:20 PDT." <20060509171520.GA10886@gate.ebshome.net>
In message <20060509171520.GA10886@gate.ebshome.net> you wrote:
>
> After many years of doing embedded Linux stuff I still don't
> understand why people are so fond of initrd.
>
> For temporary stuff - tempfs is much better and flexible. For r/o
> stuff - just make separate MTD partition (cramfs, squashfs) and mount
> it directly as root. Both options will waste significantly less
> memory.
Agreed.
And if somebody wants to see facts and numbers, please see
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemSelection
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-09 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-09 14:38 Viable PPC platform? geneSmith
2006-05-09 15:34 ` Matt Porter
2006-05-09 16:41 ` Alex Zeffertt
2006-05-09 17:15 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-05-09 22:31 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2006-05-22 21:51 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-22 22:15 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-05-22 22:21 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-10 11:11 ` Alex Zeffertt
2006-05-10 16:48 ` Eugene Surovegin
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2006-05-09 22:52 Howard, Marc
2006-05-09 23:00 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-05-09 23:11 Howard, Marc
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