On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:46:01PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Hi Wolfgang,
> > CF is a great way to boot up the system. Then, most of its content > > should be mounted as read-only on a ram-based root filesystem. The > > writable-part should be on the ramdisk, and should be updated to > > Using a ramdisk is simple, but far from optima. In almost all > circumstances a tmpfs is a much better choice. I mean tmpfs when mentioning a ramdisk, not ramfs. Yes, tmpfs expands as needed depending in available RAM. It is much better than ramfs. > > Does Linux have union-mount yet, in 2.6.x? It will make my life > > less miserable in building embedded systems. > > We're working on a FIST based fan-out filesystem which will allow > exactly what you are looking for. Thank you for the information. I will take a look at it. It will make updating the software/filesystem more robust on the embedded scale. Bao -- Best Regards. Bao C. Ha Hacom OpenBrick Distributor USA http://www.hacom.net voice: (714) 530-8817 fax: (714) 530-8818 8D66 6672 7A9B 6879 85CD 42E0 9F6C 7908 ED95 6B38
