On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:33 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I might be a little late in the discussion, but I somehow missed this
> before. Please don't add this xip support to cramfs, because the
> whole point of cramfs is to be a simple _compressed_ filesystem,
> and we really don't want to add more complexity to it. Please
> use something like the existing ext2 xip mode instead of add support
> to romfs using the generic filemap methods.
Too late :) The XIP cramfs patch is widely used in the embedded Linux
community and has been used for years. It fulfills a need for a small
XIP Flash file system. Hence our interest in getting it or some
variation into the mainline kernel.
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