Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:00:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:00:20 -0500 Received: from [66.89.142.2] ([66.89.142.2]:23600 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:58:33 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:01:21 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Alexander Viro , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To:

<3C448D8F.80606@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <3C448D8F.80606@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On January 15, 2002 09:14 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > You apparently wrote: > > > I don't think think this application alone is enough to add Yet Another > > > Version of CPIO. However, if there are more compelling reasons to do so > > > for CPIO backup reasons itself I guess we could write it up and add it > > > to GNU cpio as "linux" format... > > > > Oh, it is, really it is. It's not just any application, and GNU already > > has its own verion of cpio. > > But not their own data format. >From the man page: "The new ASCII format is portable between different machine architectures and can be used on any size file system, but is not supported by all versions of cpio; currently, it is only supported by GNU and Unix System V R4." -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/