linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <200808221204.57413.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:04:57 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	"Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@...il.com>
Cc:	"Frans Meulenbroeks" <fransmeulenbroeks@...il.com>,
	Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"Jörn Engel" <joern@...fs.org>,
	tim.bird@...sony.com, cotte@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

On Friday 22 August 2008 05:32, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > Jared, nice work!

> > - would axfs be suitable as a filesystem on a ram disk?
>
> It could be.  I plan on implementing support for brd.  That might work
> nicely.

I was going to take a look at this too. With any luck, it should be
little effort required as it looks like you have the block device
support in place?

This filesystem actually should in theory work fairly well with brd,
because then we wouldn't have to bring the data over into pagecache
for frequently used pages but we can retain the compressed storage
for the infrequently used stuff.

I say in theory because I don't know of any serious users (except
kernel testing) of brd :)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/