Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Noyes
At 03:44 PM 1/19/01 -0600, David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 19 Jan 2001, at 20:16, Scott C. Best wrote: > >[Someone said:] > > > 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 f

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Noyes
Mike, Here is the referenced README. >>I think the information on ramfs is in that directory too. > >I didn't see it. The inode.c file for ramfs was all I could find. /* * Resizable simple ram filesystem for Linux. * * Copyright (C) 2000 Linus Torvalds. * 2000 Transmeta Co

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Sensney
>There is supposed to be some documentation in the 2.4 kernel tarball. >linux/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt Here is the file. >I think the information on ramfs is in that directory too. I didn't see it. linux/Documentation/filesystems# ls 00-INDEX adfs.txt bfs.txt cramfs.txt ext2

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Noyes
At 03:44 PM 1/19/01 -0600, David Douthitt < wrote: >On 19 Jan 2001, at 20:16, Scott C. Best wrote: > > So...can someone relate the quantitive advantages of cramfs or > > ramfs for me? Filesize savings, glib compatibility, etc. > >I must be WAY behind the curve on this one :-( > >What is ramfs?

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread David Douthitt
On 19 Jan 2001, at 20:16, Scott C. Best wrote: [Someone said:] > > 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

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Scott C. Best
Let me take this moment to become the least informed person on the list... > >>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

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Noyes
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 artic

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Sensney
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. Th

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Sensney
Another reference to cramfs and ramfs: http://www.handhelds.org/minihowto/filesystems.html And source files: http://linux.mirrors.nks.net/ftp.handhelds.org/linux/compaq/ipaq/v0.15/ At 08:33 AM 01/19/2001 -0800, Mike Sensney wrote: >At 08:48 AM 01/18/2001 -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: >>I just received

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Noyes
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 a

Re: [Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Mike Sensney
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

[Leaf-devel] Mobile Linux

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Noyes
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 t