mkcramfs building

[Norm Legare]

Hello,

I would like to create 2 cramfs filesystems on my flash so that I can
copy the kernel and the root filesystem on each, but I am having
trouble getting mkcramfs to run on my target.  I built it on the host
with the cross-compiler and when I ran it on the target, I got the
error:

"mkcramfs: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory".

So I proceeded to statically link mkcramfs and libz.so.1.  The filesize
grew from 79169 to about 1,719,000 bytes.  I am using the SELF set of
tools and kernel from DENX and it contains a Ramdisk which seems to be
limited to about 2MB (I'm just speculating here), because when I ran
the mkcramfs utility (in its bloated size of 1.7MB), it responded with:
"No more room on device" (or something very similar).  I noticed that
the libz.so.1 is only about 65K and the mkcramfs without the library is
about 79K.

So, I ask, is it possible to increase the total number of bytes (from
files) that the root filesystem can contain or can I run the mkcramfs
utility without the library statically linked and somehow have the
library libz.so.1 linked at runtime?  Or is there something that I
missed altogether?

TIA,
Norm

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