From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Art Boulatov <art@ksu.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filesystem for initrd
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:51:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010312145146.A878@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AAAC179.8020109@ksu.ru> <3AAAC6C5.EF198D4A@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3AAAC6C5.EF198D4A@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:28:53PM -0500
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:28:53PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> cramfs is nice but still read-only at the moment... You might be able
> to get away with stacking ramfs on top of that.
What is easier because this ...
> If not, it shouldn't be hard to modify cramfs so that it allows
> fs modifications... just stick the updated pages in RAM until
> the file is unlinked or the fs is unmounted.
... will lead into problems accounting available space on the fs,
since openers don't expect that they cannot write to a file
anymore, just because we we are out of RAM for backing the
writes.
I think unionfs will care for this kind of problems once we have
it implemented in an official tree.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-11 0:06 Art Boulatov
2001-03-11 0:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-12 13:51 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
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