cramfs

"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:

"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:

KernelTrap: "In a series of seven patches, Arnd Bergmann proposed adding in-memory write support to mounted cramfs file systems..."

In a series of seven patches, Arnd Bergmann proposed adding in-memory write support to mounted cramfs file systems.

He explained, "the intention is to use it for instance on read-only root file systems like CD-ROM, or on compressed initrd images.

In either case, no data is written back to the medium, but remains in the page/inode/dentry cache, like ramfs does." Reactions were mixed.