We ended up with squashfs since it gave better compression, better runtime performance, and -- most importantly for us -- the 'mksquashfs' suite is easy to compile up on non-Linux unixes, and it handles endiannes issues.
> > > Greetings > > 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!! > > For SQUASHFS, I'm unsure as to how mature it is and what its memory overhead > is > since its using zlib - would the discussions about sharing zlib workspace be > relevant here as well? > > Does anyone have a horror story particular to either of these technologies? > > Many thanks... > > -- > Robin Gilks > Senior Design Engineer Phone: (+64)(3) 357 1569 > Tait Electronics Fax : (+64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : robin.gilks at tait.co.nz > New Zealand > > > -- Dave Updegraff, Cray Inc. / dave at cray.com / 218-525-1154 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
