Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755971AbZFVUko (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751228AbZFVUkb (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:31 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:36235 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750997AbZFVUk3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:29 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Nkj2GLzlwOrEohQtpa3/Z4czAFhzgoE+gN5W51R1Zw0i 1245703231 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:40:29 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Marco Cc: Pavel Machek , Tim Bird , Jamie Lokier , Linux Embedded , Linux Kernel , Linux FS Devel , Daniel Walker Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem Message-ID: <20090622204028.GC29833@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20090613155957.GA16220@shareable.org> <4A34A394.5040509@gmail.com> <20090621064040.GC1656@ucw.cz> <4A3E6F28.4090404@gmail.com> <20090621205245.GC3254@elf.ucw.cz> <2ea1731b0906212333r20deb71q2f021fc79bcc8a8e@mail.gmail.com> <20090622172003.GB21149@elf.ucw.cz> <4A3FBFF0.40006@am.sony.com> <20090622173704.GC21299@elf.ucw.cz> <4A3FC84A.6060608@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A3FC84A.6060608@gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1178 Lines: 26 On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Marco wrote: > I don't think, I think it's very clear: > > "In summary, PRAMFS is a light-weight, full-featured, and > space-efficient special filesystem that is ideal for systems with a > block of fast non-volatile RAM that need to access data on it using a > standard filesytem interface." It is not full-featured if it doesn't have support for hardlinks, security labels, extended attributes, etc. Please call it a specialized filesystem instead, that seems to be much more in line with the comments about pramfs use cases in this thread... Oh, and that should be in the Kconfig help text, as well as the stuff that goes in Documentation/*, obviously. Maybe it already is, I didn't look. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/