Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list.
Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 02:42:37 -0700
On Wed Oct 30, 2002 at 06:38:24PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Or do you mean have it somehow avoid copying the data areas of the cpio
> stream (i.e. store pointers from the tree-in-ram to the actual data
> blocks in ROM).
>
> I guess the latter sounds cleaner... it would also have the advantage
> that you could have a tree with the bulk of data in ROM, but which
> allowed new files to be written (which would be stored in RAM).
>
> Hmmm...sounds very intersting...
Now _that_ would be extremely useful!
-Erik
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