On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:23 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
It appears cramfs is very limited, it's rather less than a full-featured Linux file system with compression. Evidently, it's actually oriented towards embedded Linux applications like your (Danny's) MP3 player.
http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/jffs2-html/ I was just building a new system for the MP3 player tonight (I'm trying for a uclibc-based setup this time), and while I was researching compressed filesystems, I stumbled across jffs2. It's a filesystem specifically designed for flash drives (spreads writes across spare blocks, to help extend the life) and has journalling and reasonable compression. It's not built into every kernel on earth by default, but it looked interesting enough that I thought I'd mention it for the sake of completeness. --Danny, using cramfs anyway, since his needs are read-only (largely to handle things like frequent unexpected power-down)