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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Squashfs/shx5yhCv">Squashfs</a> is another read-only compressed file system</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Cloop/DtbSNtw3">Cloop</a> is a compressed <a href="/facts/Loop_device/tYrnMSWm">loopback device</a> module for the <a href="/facts/Linux_kernel/dlkduHuA">Linux kernel</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/E2compr/ftyVw4Kv">e2compr</a> provides compression for <a href="/facts/Ext2/ftyVw4Kv">ext2</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_file_systems/GMUaz18t">List of file systems</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_file_systems/M7ynsI2z">Comparison of file systems</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Tony Benavides, Justin Treon, Jared Hulbert and Weide Chang, <i><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100515124729/http://www.academypublisher.com/ojs/index.php/jcp/article/viewFile/03017989/370">The Enabling of an Execute-In-Place Architecture to Reduce the Embedded System Memory Footprint and Boot Time</a></i>, Journal of Computers, Vol. 3, No. 1, Jan 2008, pp. 79–89</li>
<li>Jared Hulbert, <i><a href="https://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/hulbert-reprint.pdf">Introducing the Advanced XIP File System</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120113041854/http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/hulbert-reprint.pdf">Archived</a> 2012-01-13 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></i>, (<a href="http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2008/ols/ols2008-jared-hulbert-xip-filesystem.ogg">talk</a>) Proceedings of the 2008 <a href="/facts/Linux_Symposium/NmtVfDd2">Linux Symposium</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/jaredeh/axfs">AXFS website</a></li>
<li>Justin Treon (February 14, 2008) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu6Yj7iKEiA">Side by side comparison of launching applications stored in the AXFS, SquashFS, CRAMFS and JFFS2 read-only filing systems.</a> (video)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/19855245/Application-eXecuteInPlace-XIP-with-Linux-and-AXFS">"Application eXecute-In-Place (XIP) with Linux and AXFS"</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Jonathan Corbet, (August 26, 2008) AXFS: a compressed, execute-in-place filesystem, lwn.net <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/295545/" target="_blank">https://lwn.net/Articles/295545/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Justin Treon, (2008-05-09) "Demystifying embedded code storage". Archived from the original on 2012-09-03., LinuxDevices.com, "There are two XIP-enabled Linux filing systems that can be used for a Balanced XIP implementation: Linear XIP CRAMFS and AXFS. The Linear XIP CRAMFS decompresses files on a file-by-file basis, whereas AXFS decompresses files on a page-by-page basis offering more optimal Flash usage." <a href="https://archive.today/20120903134354/http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Demystifying-embedded-code-storage/" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20120903134354/http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Demystifying-embedded-code-storage/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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