From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Scharfe Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creator Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:42:04 +0200 Message-ID: <426E533C.70502@lsrfire.ath.cx> References: <20050424014346.GA23083@lsrfire.ath.cx> <20050425153011.34c93b38.paul@permanentmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pasky@ucw.cz, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 26 16:38:55 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQRC0-0007Et-72 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:37:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261566AbVDZOmc (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:42:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261577AbVDZOmb (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:42:31 -0400 Received: from neapel230.server4you.de ([217.172.187.230]:10382 "EHLO neapel230.server4you.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261566AbVDZOmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:42:14 -0400 Received: from [10.0.1.3] (p508E5FF1.dip.t-dialin.net [80.142.95.241]) by neapel230.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845A615B; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:42:08 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en To: Paul Dickson In-Reply-To: <20050425153011.34c93b38.paul@permanentmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Paul Dickson schrieb: > Use the "newc" format. The "odc" will generate a lot of errors on a > large filesystem (which I discovered this past weekend). How is that? I can only imagine problems with the size of individual files inside an archive because the size field in the header is limited to 33 bits. In any case, I switched to the tar format. It's more complicated but it turned out that creating these things is still easy. Parsing them might be more of a challenge, but we already have tar for that. :-) See my other mail for more on the tar creator. I also rebased it to core GIT because it's no helper script. Rene