<s>
AXFS	B-Application
(	O
Advanced	O
XIP	B-Application
Filesystem	B-Application
)	O
is	O
a	O
compressed	B-General_Concept
read-only	O
file	B-Application
system	I-Application
for	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
,	O
initially	O
developed	O
at	O
Intel	O
,	O
and	O
now	O
maintained	O
at	O
Numonyx	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
designed	O
to	O
use	O
execute	B-Application
in	I-Application
place	I-Application
(	O
XIP	B-Application
)	O
alongside	O
compression	O
aiming	O
to	O
reduce	O
boot	B-Application
and	O
program	O
load	O
times	O
,	O
while	O
retaining	O
a	O
small	O
memory	O
footprint	O
for	O
embedded	B-Architecture
devices	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
achieved	O
by	O
mixing	O
compressed	B-General_Concept
and	O
uncompressed	B-General_Concept
pages	B-General_Concept
in	O
the	O
same	O
executable	O
file	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AXFS	B-Application
is	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
(	O
licensed	O
under	O
the	O
GPL	B-License
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cramfs	B-Application
is	O
another	O
read-only	O
compressed	B-General_Concept
file	B-Application
system	I-Application
that	O
supports	O
XIP	B-Application
(	O
with	O
patches	O
)	O
;	O
however	O
,	O
it	O
uses	O
a	O
strategy	O
of	O
decompressing	O
entire	O
files	O
,	O
whereas	O
AXFS	B-Application
supports	O
XIP	B-Application
with	O
page	O
granularity	O
.	O
</s>
