On Tue, 17 June 2008 16:06:28 +0200, Maxim Shchetynin wrote: > > > > My personal question when looking at this is: Why not use ext2? It > > Same reason we don't use ext2 for file system in RAM - we don't need any expensive caching and readahead mechanisms for devices which are as fast as main memory (or almost as fast). Well, with the '-o xip' option I mentioned below, there is no caching or readahead. The direct_access method you use as well was developed for ext2. Or rather for xip2fs, another new filesystem. After some review, that was shot down and a mount option was added to ext2 instead. > > appears to me that an ext2 mounted with '-o xip' would solve the same > > problems. Jörn -- Homo Sapiens is a goal, not a description. -- unknown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
