"Timing issue when we use SPANSION 8MB Flash"

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Tue Oct 11 10:09:44 EDT 2005


On Mon, 10 October 2005 10:38:13 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> And if what you are after is a read-only compressed filesystem, I would
> recommend squashfs over cramfs.

Not unconditionally.  There is a reason why cramfs is not merged into
the kernel yet.  While its pure performance numbers (compression rate,
etc) are better, the code has its issues.  Biggest offender is the use
of bitfields, which are duplicated depending on the endianness of the
filesystem and the host machine.

YMMV, so I won't give any recommendation either way.

Jörn

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