1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
6 Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
7 System). CramFs is designed to be a simple, small, and compressed
8 file system for ROM based embedded systems. CramFs is read-only,
9 limited to 256MB file systems (with 16MB files), and doesn't support
10 16/32 bits uid/gid, hard links and timestamps.
12 See <file:Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.rst> and
13 <file:fs/cramfs/README> for further information.
15 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
16 cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
17 directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.
19 This filesystem is limited in capabilities and performance on
20 purpose to remain small and low on RAM usage. It is most suitable
21 for small embedded systems. If you have ample RAM to spare, you may
22 consider a more capable compressed filesystem such as SquashFS
23 which is much better in terms of performance and features.
27 config CRAMFS_BLOCKDEV
28 bool "Support CramFs image over a regular block device" if EXPERT
29 depends on CRAMFS && BLOCK
32 This option allows the CramFs driver to load data from a regular
33 block device such a disk partition or a ramdisk.
36 bool "Support CramFs image directly mapped in physical memory"
37 depends on CRAMFS && CRAMFS <= MTD
38 default y if !CRAMFS_BLOCKDEV
40 This option allows the CramFs driver to load data directly from
41 a linear adressed memory range (usually non volatile memory
42 like flash) instead of going through the block device layer.
43 This saves some memory since no intermediate buffering is
46 The location of the CramFs image is determined by a
47 MTD device capable of direct memory mapping e.g. from
48 the 'physmap' map driver or a resulting MTD partition.
49 For example, this would mount the cramfs image stored in
50 the MTD partition named "xip_fs" on the /mnt mountpoint:
52 mount -t cramfs mtd:xip_fs /mnt