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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/19] pramfs
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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