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List:       linux-arm-kernel
Subject:    Re: "Rules of the Road" Needed for CRAMFS Root (fwd)
From:       Olav Kongas <ok () artecdesign ! ee>
Date:       2005-03-01 6:45:07
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0503010839170.25511-100000 () pcx
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The below message was obviously intended for the list.

Olav

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:45:55 -0700
From: Russ Dill <russ.dill@gmail.com>
To: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee>
Subject: Re: "Rules of the Road" Needed for CRAMFS Root

> We decided to use cramfs when it turned out that some
> customers tended to fiddle with the jffs2, which came back
> as an extra support burden. They haven't (yet) dared
> to replace the whole filesystems.
>

cramfs also boots faster, the code overhead is smaller, and its very
easy to reimage, even comes with a CRC. You can also tack on extra
information to the end of the image file as well.



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