Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:21:00 +0200 | From | Maxim Shchetynin <> | Subject | Re: AZFS file system proposal |
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:36:28 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
> > 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?
tmpfs plus xip? I'm 100% sure noone have tryed it yet. Does anyone want to? I not.
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