[Gc-linux-devel] Re: Compressed VM

[Hans K. R. <hk...@ci...>]

> Sounds *very* interesting, but the kernel patches seem to be for 2.4
> only, and we're based on 2.6. :-/

That's a bummer..  I wonder how much work it would be to port
the compressed swap part to 2.6.

Anyways..  I think another aproach might be possible..
The question is: Is the 16mb destined for swap usage using MTD drivers?
(I guess this it 2x8MB flash cards that you put in the front of the GC,
right?)

If so, I assume it is MTD capable.
That means you can format them with the JFFS2 filesystem.
And then you can put swap-FILES (2.6 supports that i think) on them.

JFFS2 is basically a read+write filesystem optimized for usage on small
flash chips, and also incorporates compression.

You need to enable MTD, then the JFFS2 selection appears under
"Misc filesystems" in the 2.6 kernel config.

I hope this leads somewhere.. =)

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