ramfs or ramdisk

[Michael Langford]

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Subject: ramfs or ramdisk

I would like to know which rootfs files system is best for the embedded 
systems, ramfs rootfs or ramdisk rootfs ?Can anyone point me interms of 
memory advantage.

Thanks
Sara

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Timesys has a website(https://linuxlink.timesys.com/docs/initramfs) and
podcast talking about the differences at their website. I believe the
pertinent discussions of the different filesystems and the boot time
tradeoffs are in the following episodes:

http://www.timesys.com/podcasts/mp3/Episode_011_LinuxLink_Radio.mp3
http://www.timesys.com/podcasts/mp3/Episode_012_LinuxLink_Radio.mp3

     --Michael

PS: I have no affiliation with them, just listen to their podcast.