On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> FWIW, I'm not sure it's a good idea to name this new filesystem AXFS. > >> People are almost certainly going to confuse it with XFS despite > > > People that care about their filesystem choice know their choices. > People that don't > care, well they don't care. > > Maybe AXIPFS would be the close alternative. It seems to be useful for non-XIP, too... > One question on the use-case profiling and subsequent image rebuild: > > What if the use-case did not cover all cases of XIP use? > > If a compressed page is attempted to be executed, will the filesystem > fall back to decompression to RAM and execution from RAM, or will this > result in a faulty system? > > The design choices look real good. Congrats on the achievement. You probably want to read the paper at http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/hulbert-reprint.pdf BTW, I regret now not having attended the OLS presentation, because there was so much emphasis on `XIP' in the description :-) Fortunately it's been recorded: http://free-electrons.com/community/videos/conferences/ so I'm gonna watch it right now... With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Techsoft Centre Europe The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 700 8453 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622 E-mail: Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/ A division of Sony Europe (Belgium) N.V. VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels Fortis · BIC GEBABEBB · IBAN BE41293037680010
