From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:03:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C448B01.6030003@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201131536480.27390-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <E16QXbx-0000wa-00@starship.berlin>
Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> Encoding the numeric fields in ASCII/hex is a goofy wart on an otherwise nice
> design. What is the compelling reason? Bytesex isn't it: we should just
> pick one or the other and stick with it as we do in Ext2.
>
> Why don't we fix cpio to write a consistent bytesex?
>
Because we want to use existing tools. It's a wart, but not compelling
enough of one to rewrite the tools from scratch. (I would also change
the EOA marker from "TRAILER!!!" to "" since a null filename would not
interfere with the namespace.)
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...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-15 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-12 8:04 initramfs buffer spec -- second draft H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 19:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-13 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 19:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-13 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 20:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-13 21:59 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 22:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-14 18:31 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-15 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 20:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-15 6:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-16 19:19 ` [offtopic] duplicate mails (was: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft) Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 6:34 ` initramfs buffer spec -- second draft Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 6:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-16 20:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-01-15 15:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-15 20:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 23:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 21:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-15 23:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 23:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 23:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-16 0:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 3:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 3:25 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-16 2:43 ` Aaron Lehmann
[not found] <200201120804.AAA19339@cesium.transmeta.com>
2002-01-13 2:00 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 2:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 4:11 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 19:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
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