From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24543 invoked by alias); 20 May 2005 14:58:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 24251 invoked from network); 20 May 2005 14:57:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp1.iitb.ac.in) (203.199.81.149) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 May 2005 14:57:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 5663 invoked from network); 20 May 2005 20:27:40 +0530 Received: from unknown (HELO ldns1.iitb.ac.in) (10.200.12.1) by smtp1.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 20 May 2005 20:27:40 +0530 Received: (qmail 1413 invoked by uid 509); 20 May 2005 14:56:56 -0000 Received: from 10.6.2.53 by ldns1 (envelope-from , uid 501) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.83/887. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(10.6.2.53):. Processed in 0.018215 secs); 20 May 2005 14:56:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.6.2.53?) (10.6.2.53) by ldns1.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 20 May 2005 14:56:56 -0000 Message-ID: <428DFACF.8010802@cse.iitb.ac.in> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 04:58:00 -0000 From: "R. Vamshi Krishna" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCos Discussion References: <32942.10.129.11.162.1116596162.squirrel@www.it.iitb.ac.in> <1116596583.22383.135.camel@hermes> In-Reply-To: <1116596583.22383.135.camel@hermes> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [ECOS] - RAM File system X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00284.txt.bz2 Gary Thomas wrote: >On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 19:06 +0530, rpai@it.iitb.ac.in wrote: > > >> hello ........ >> >> I have an application that uses data given by the user. So the >>question is how can i get data into the redboot , which format >>of file I should store the data. I am using the RAM file >>system.... >> >> Can any one tell me a way to get data into redboot... >> >> > >Why would you want the data "into RedBoot?" If the application >needs the data, have it fetch it itself, e.g. using TFTP. > >If you want the data to be permanent, then you could keep it in >a FLASH image (managed by RedBoot). Since the RAM file system is >dynamic (purely created at runtime), you may need to fetch the >data in some other fashion and then load it into the RAM file system. >Another alternative would be to keep the data in some other form, >e.g. JFFS2 or ROM file system. > > > And if we also create a file during the execution of the application and want to make it available to us even after the termination of the application, what do we have to do ? For instance we would want to keep track of packets that violate a condition. So to keep track of such things, we would want store this info for analysis offline. -- Vamshi -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss