CRAMFS or SQUASHFS

[Eugene Surovegin]

At 04:04 PM 6/3/2003, Robin Gilks wrote:
>I've been trying to determine the best Flash based *_read-only_* compressed
>filesystem for an embedded system.
>
>I can find nothing about CRAMFS - not even what it stands for - is it CRAM
>as in
>squeeze it all in or Compressed RAM meaning it uses loads of RAM to expand
>into.
>Just a hint in the right direction here would help!!

Did you read Documentation/filesystems/cramfs ??????

We use cramfs in one of our embedded products along with read-only MTD
block device.
No problems so far :)

BTW, patch exists that solves endianess problems in mkcramfs.

Eugene.


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