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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:28:11 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file)
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Alexander Viro wrote:
 >

> I doubt that extra utilities are worth the effort.  Said that, layout
> of the damn thing is nowhere near the top of the list of things that
> worry me - as long as it's well-defined, can be handled from userland
> and can be easily unpacked I'm OK with it.

   [...]

> 
> Frankly, holy wars over layout of archive look rather pointless.  _That_
> is trivial to change at any point until the moment when it hits the main
> tree.  Getting late-boot code clean is the real problem.

 >

Agreed, of course.  I just happen to be approaching this from this end, 
with considering what kind of boot loader changes are desirable.

	-hpa


P.S. As far as the umsdos pivot thing is concerned, I always considered 
it to be a bug that it was only applicable to the root.  I would like to 
suggest making it a mount option instead.


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