RomDisk

[Gary Thomas]

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 04:33, Sunil P Antony wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> 	I'm using the romfs on my Intel strata flash which will contain the kernel
> and the application. According to the docs the romfs image is built into the
> kernel, I'd like to know if the romfs is also RAM resident all the time or
> is there a pointer that might access it from the rom device. The rom disk
> driver provided, accesses the FS data through a char array. Incase the romfs
> is always RAM resident, i would like to flash the FS image and acccess it
> from the flash. Is this possible with the current char array? Or should i
> convert it to a binary and then flash the image.
> The following link has the details....
> http://romfs.sourceforge.net/
> 	I am also interested in mounting this root ROMFS onto my flash device. But
> it gives me an "unable to open device" error. The bootargs have been
> specified as "root=/dev/flash0 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600". I'm
> using a PPC 860 architecture with Linux 2.4.
> Hoping someone could help me out in this matter.
>

Just a thought: have you considered using JFFS2 instead of the
simple ROM filesystem?  It's much more flexible and you'll find
all of the things you are asking for "just work."

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