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cramfs: mark as obsolete
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Who needs cramfs when you have squashfs?  At least, we should warn people
that cramfs is obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Opdenacker authored and torvalds committed Nov 13, 2013
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CRAMFS FILESYSTEM
W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/
S: Orphan
S: Orphan / Obsolete
F: Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt
F: fs/cramfs/

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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion fs/cramfs/Kconfig
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config CRAMFS
tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs) (OBSOLETE)"
depends on BLOCK
select ZLIB_INFLATE
help
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cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.

This filesystem is obsoleted by SquashFS, which is much better
in terms of performance and features.

If unsure, say N.

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