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From: Amit D Chaudhary <amit@muppetlabs.com>
To: Bjorn Wesen <bjorn@sparta.lu.se>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CRAMFS
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:01:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ABBC7D2.6070502@muppetlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010323194500.14171C-100000@medusa.sparta.lu.se>

> I don't know why the comparision is made though, they are used for two
> completely different things... ramfs is for temporary file storage, cramfs
> is for immutable files stored on flash. Each by itself is quite optimal
> for what it's designed for, isn't it ?

Exactly. My mistake earlier to assume cramfs was "compressed ramfs"! ;-)
I should compare it to the tar.gz option and JFFS2. Will do in the next 
evaluation.
This will be more of a replace initrd+custom /linuxrc with a 
CRAMFS-based rootfs on a flash device assuming CRAMFS can be directly 
read by kernel\init for getting the rootfs. Ditto for JFFS2

Also, the platform is PPC, IBM 405GP to be precise.

Regards
Amit


  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-23 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-23  6:36 /linuxrc query Amit D Chaudhary
2001-03-23  6:51 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-03-23  7:00   ` Amit D Chaudhary
2001-03-23 11:18     ` Werner Almesberger
2001-03-23 17:46       ` Amit D Chaudhary
2001-03-23  7:07   ` Amit D Chaudhary
2001-03-23 11:24     ` Werner Almesberger
2001-03-23 14:07   ` David Woodhouse
2001-03-23 18:00     ` RAMFS, CRAMFS and JFFS2(was Re: /linuxrc query) Amit D Chaudhary
2001-03-23 19:37       ` David Woodhouse
2001-03-23 20:25         ` CRAMFS Bjorn Wesen
2001-03-23 22:01           ` Amit D Chaudhary [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-09  4:24 cramfs Trever L. Adams
2001-07-16  6:23 ` cramfs Daniel Quinlan
2003-11-07 20:07 CRAMFS Bradley Bozarth
2003-11-09 15:15 ` CRAMFS H. Peter Anvin

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