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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 23:31:08 +0200
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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        Eugene Crosser <crosser@average.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
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Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Reading a tarball is the distillation of what you describe into
> > efficient form :)
> 
> /me downloads tar file definition
> 
> Um, gnu tar or posix tar? or some new, improved tar?

I suggest cpio, which is more compact and in some ways more standard.
(tar has a silly pad-to-multiple-of-512-byte per file rule, which is
inappropriate for this).  GNU cpio creates cpio format just fine.

-- Jamie
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