Re: [leaf-devel] 2.6.x kernel support?

[Erich T. <eri...@th...>]

E.S...@in... wrote:
> Mike, Homer,
> 
> 
>>>Yea, but might give some ideas on the conversion. Though, asides from a
>>> floppy, what can you buy today that wouldn't hold a 16MB image?
>>
>>Homer,
>>Not much.
>>
> 
> LEAF runs in RAM, so it's not only a matter of 16 Mb storage but also the
> availability of internal RAM. This shouldn't be a problem in most cases,
> but if LEAF is ported to other architectures with limited RAM this could
> become a problem.

Indeed, and I am surprised noone ever brought this up. Currently LEAF
(and probably other RAM based systems) is wasting RAM for storage of
binaries , libraries and scripts, some of which are loaded only once. If
we want to keep the RAM based architecture of the LEAF systems and
reduce the RAM footprint I believe we need to restructure our packages
so they can be held in a small number of loop mounted cramfs images. I
believe we could reduce the filesystem footprint significantly. LINCE
does this already AFAIK. Only the configuable files need to be held in a
R/W filesystem.

cheers

Erich