AXIP, Advanced Execute In Place Filesystem

Courtesy KernelTrap - Kernel news  Thu, 08/21/2008 - 22:10

"I'd like to get a first round of review on my AXFS filesystem," began Jared Hulbert , describing his new Advanced XIP File System for Linux.

XIP stands for eXecute-In-Place. The new filesystem received quite a bit of positive feedback. Jared offered the following description:

"This is a simple read only compressed filesystem like Squashfs and cramfs.

AXFS is special because it also allows for execute-in-place of your applications. It is a major improvement over the cramfs...


 

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