Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't follow you here. Why do you wan't to use loop mounted cramfs? Does > it use RAM or ROM (Flash/HD/Floppy/..). The advantage of full RAM based > systems is that you can unmount the storage media. Besides the footprint > of Bering-uClibc with base packages is only ~8Mb.
Yes, but look at it when it holds ipsec, ssh, samba, squid... A loop mounted cramfs looks (for read_only operations) exactly like a part of the file system tree. The benefit of this is that, even on ram, it cannot be trivially modified and it takes a lot less RAM space because it compresses its contents. For example if we had all the /bin in a cramfs called bin.cfs which would sit at / we could mount mount -o loop /bin.cfs /bin and the space needed by bin.cfs would be a lot smaller than if the individual files in /bin would be installed normally. The same is true for all read_only components, like /lib /sbin /usr/bin cheers Erich ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
