Hi, Danny, On Tuesday 15 March 2005 18:47, Danny Sauer wrote:
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:23 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Danny,
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:09, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Danny,
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I was thinking plain old extfs2, but this cramfs thing sounds interesting. What are the implications / requirements for getting it working on an otherwise stock SuSE 9.1 (with all YOU patches, including new kernels, installed)?
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.
For example (from the NOTES file included in the cramfs tools tarball):
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What about just gzipping everything on the card? Many (most?) utilities can directly work with gzipped files now - things like less, man, vim, etc. On my Gentoo desktop that I'm testing with, bzip'd files are transparent to those tools, too. Sadly, the GUI tools largely don't work with either. And zlib is so easy to use...
I doubt it's worth the bother. One gig is plenty for shuttling files around. Hell, I was making do fine with 128 meg, but when the 1 gig stick was on sale and I was feeling in buying mood (new job), I decided to get one. I just formatted it for ext2fs and I'm sure that will be just fine.
--Danny, probably not a whole lot of help. :)
Sure you are. Now I know something about cramfs. Randall Schulz