From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:15:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:15:36 -0400 Received: from eventhorizon.antefacto.net ([193.120.245.3]:45788 "EHLO eventhorizon.antefacto.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:15:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3B32FEA9.1070105@AnteFacto.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:15:37 +0100 From: Padraig Brady User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-ac4 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Bjorn Wesen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ? In-Reply-To: <21093.988364178@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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