Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ?

Padraig Brady (Padraig@AnteFacto.com)
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:15:37 +0100


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

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