Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

Marco
2009-06-22T18:12:29Z

Tim Bird wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>> How do you handle hard-links, then?
>>> Indeed hard-links are not supported :) Due to the design of this fs
>>> there are some limitations explained in the documentation as not
>>> hard-link, only private memory mapping and so on. However this
>>> limitations don't limit the fs itself because you must consider the
>>> special goal of this fs.
>> I did not see that in the changelog. If it is not general purpose
>> filesystem, it is lot less interesting.
>
> PRAMFS is not a general purpose filesystem. Please read
> the introductory post to this thread, or look at
> http://pramfs.sourceforge.net/ for more information.
>
> Since the purpose of PRAMFS is to provide a filesystem
> that is persistent across kernel instantions, it is not
> designed for high speed. Robustness in the face of
> kernel crashes or bugs is the highest priority, so
> PRAMFS has significant overhead to make the window
> of writability to the filesystem RAM as small as possible.
>
> This is not a file system one would do kernel compiles on.
> This is where someone would keep a small amount of sensitive
> data, or crash logs that one needed to preserve over kernel
> invocations.
>

Yep, I quite agree.

Marco