In message <s1331f30.037 at EMAIL> you wrote:
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> >> Is there an advantage to use ext2 instead of cramfs for read only fs?
>
> > Boot time, as you don't need to uncompress the stuff.
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> Could you pls elaborate the choice of ex2 in the above scenario, instead of
> romfs. Was it to take advantage of the features that ext2 provides ?
> Romfs should have had a better bootup time than ext2/jffs2/cramfs.
Are you sure of this? Do you have actual benchmark data?
Also, romfs has some restrictions (owner and permission information)
and an inefficient design (pages read from filesystem cannot be
executed directly because of 16 byte file header offset).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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