<x-flowed>At 09:22 AM 1/19/01 -0800, Mike Sensney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 08:39 AM 01/19/2001 -0800, Mike Noyes wrote:
>>At 08:33 AM 1/19/01 -0800, Mike Sensney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>At 08:48 AM 01/18/2001 -0800, Mike Noyes wrote:
>>>>I just received issue 01 of elj yesterday. It has an article that
>>>>mentions an embedded OS (Mobile Linux) created by Linus. The
>>>>interesting part (quoted below) IMO is cramfs and ramfs. Has anyone
>>>>seen the source for either of these file systems? Would they be useful?
>>>>Could they possibly solve the libc size problem?
>>>
>>>Apparently it is in the 2.4 kernel. Check out 13.4 and 13.5 at:
>>>http://members.nbci.com/greyhams/linux/PowerPC-Embedded-HOWTO-13.html
>>
>>Mike,
>>It says that cramfs can be back-ported to 2.2 kernels, but it doesn't say
>>if it's possible to back-port ramfs. Do you know if it's possible to
>>back-port ramfs?
>
>I don't know. My guess is not at this time as they only mention
>back-porting of cramfs.
Mike,
I found an early back-port of cramfs. Still no luck with ramfs.
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0011.0/1019.html
Are these file systems useful for a 2.2 system, or should we just try to
use them on Charles's new 2.4 kernel? David, Charles any opinions?
>There is an email address for asking questions just under the ramfs
>section at http://www.handhelds.org/minihowto/filesystems.html#Ramfs
I don't think I'm qualified to ask an intelligent question. I'm not a
programmer. :(
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