Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Sep 2013 18:22:18 +0200 | From | Marco Stornelli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/19] pramfs |
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Il 07/09/2013 16:58, richard -rw- weinberger ha scritto: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Marco Stornelli > <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> this is an attempt to include pramfs in mainline. At the moment pramfs >> has been included in LTSI kernel. Since last review the code is more >> or less the same but, with a really big thanks to Vladimir Davydov and >> Parallels, the development of fsck has been started and we have now >> the possibility to correct fs errors due to corruption. It's a "young" >> tool but we are working on it. You can clone the code from our repos: >> >> git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pramfs/code pramfs-code >> git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pramfs/Tools pramfs-Tools > > I'm a bit confused, what kind of non-volatile RAM is your fs targeting? > Wouldn't it make sense to use pstore like > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c does? >
Usually battery-backed SRAM, but actually it can be used in any piece of ram directly accessible and it provides a normal and complete fs interface. Usually I do the fs test remapping my system ram. You can find documentation here:
http://pramfs.sourceforge.net
Marco
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