Making a Cramfs File System Image

Texas Instruments

Published Date: 02/07/2008

Description

This application report demonstrates how to build a compressed ROM file system (cramfs) file system image and add support for cramfs in the Linux kernel. The goal is to build a small file system that can be placed in Flash memory. Since cramfs is a read-only file system with limited size it is mostly useful in embedded devices where there is a limited amount of storage and there is no need to wri