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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: klibc@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: INITRAMFS: allow no trailer
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:11:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B11CEB.30103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412040147.iB41lIlK031974@sullivan.realtime.net>

Milton Miller wrote:
> 
> hpa points out that you should be careful with the headers, use unique
> inode numbers and/or add a cpio header with just TRAILER!!! to reset
> the inode hash table to avoid unwanted hard links.  I just put this
> sequence as the last files loaded.
> 

Correction.  I just remembered we wrote the spec so that a file with a 
link count of 1 is not entered in the hash table and therefore is never 
hardlinked.  This should do what you need.  (This was obviously done for 
exactly this reason.)

	-hpa

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-04  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-04  1:47 INITRAMFS: allow no trailer Milton Miller
2004-12-04  2:10 ` [klibc] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-04  2:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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