From: Padraig Brady <Padraig@AnteFacto.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Bjorn Wesen <bjorn@sparta.lu.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ?
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:15:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B32FEA9.1070105@AnteFacto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010426203656.22847A-100000@medusa.sparta.lu.se> <21093.988364178@redhat.com>
David Woodhouse wrote:
>bjorn@sparta.lu.se said:
>
>> you could try using jffs2 on a RAM-simulated MTD partition. i think
>>that would work but i have not tried it..
>>
>
>It works. Most of the early testing and development was done on it. It
>wouldn't give you dynamic sizing like ramfs though.
>
>It would be nice to have a version of ramfs which compresses pages into a
>separate backing store when they're unused. Shame somebody nicked the name
>'cramfs' for something else, really :)
>
Hmm must look into getting ramfs working with
http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/
seems like the best of both worlds.
Padraig
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-22 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-26 19:40 ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ? Padraig Brady
2001-04-26 18:48 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-04-26 20:39 ` Marko Kreen
2001-04-27 0:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-27 11:32 ` mirabilos
2001-04-27 13:41 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-26 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-26 22:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-27 9:36 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-27 11:36 ` mirabilos
2001-06-22 8:15 ` Padraig Brady [this message]
2001-04-27 15:56 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-27 16:19 ` mirabilos
2001-04-27 17:39 ` David L. Parsley
2001-04-27 17:53 ` Padraig Brady
2001-04-27 17:23 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-04-28 10:30 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-27 16:23 ` Padraig Brady
2001-04-27 14:31 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-04-27 15:38 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-27 7:58 ` Christoph Rohland
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