On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:46:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> > If I want to run a system entirely from ram with a compressed filesystem
> > image mounted on /, is it better to store that image in a ramdisk, or on
> > a tmpfs and mount it via loopback?
> 
> Store it all in ramfs, no loopback needed?

I used to put everything in a tmpfs on /, and that certainly works. But
most files in a typical image are rarely used and it's a pity to have
lots of little files taking up a 4k page each.

You get pretty big savings by compressing the system into a squashfs and
mounting that, so the question becomes: where to put the squashfs?
ramdisk or loopback mount it from tmpfs/ramfs?

iirc, the problems with loopback have to do with writeout, which isn't a
problem here since squashfs is readonly.

Jason
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