Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:36:28 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: AZFS file system proposal |
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On Tuesday 2008-06-17 13:57, Maxim Shchetynin wrote:
>> >> (a) What is axonram? >> >> (b) why is axonram direct_access, and my other devices (including >> >> standard PC RAM) not? >> > >> >[Axonram is a module specific for IBM CellBlade and allows access to >> >a DDR2 memory attached onto Axon controller.] You don't need >> >direct_access and not azfs for main memory because there is already >> >a pretty nice tmpfs for it. >> >> So the reason azfs could be useful is...? > >The "?" at the end of your sentence might mean a question. I would >be really happy to give an answer on it if I could understand it.
If one does not need direct_access nor azfs, and ext2 plus XIP minus caching or tmpfs plus XIP can achieve the same effect, what can azfs that we could not already do without azfs?
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