AXFS

AXFS (Advanced XIP Filesystem) is a compressed read-only file system for Linux. Designed to utilise XIP alongside compression to increase boot and load times whilst retaining a small footprint for embedded devices. AXFS is free software (licensed under the GPL).

See also

* List of file systems
* Comparison of file systems
* Cramfs is another read-only compressed file system (with patches to support XIP available)
* Squashfs is another read-only compressed file system
* zisofs is a transparent compression extension to the ISO 9660 file system
* Cloop is a compressed loopback device module for the Linux kernel
* e2compr provides compression for ext2

External links

* [http://axfs.sourceforge.net/ AXFS website]