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From: Anthony DeBoer <adb@leftmind.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:40:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010709104043.A17563@leftmind.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107070727030.24836-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <9i73bg$psv$1@pccross.average.org> <3B471399.1D6BBED6@mandrakesoft.com> <01070719241107.22952@starship>
In-Reply-To: <20010707233108.B10109@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>

Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>(tar has a silly pad-to-multiple-of-512-byte per file rule, which is
>inappropriate for this).  GNU cpio creates cpio format just fine.

Tarballs are almost universally compressed, and that pad squishes fairly
well then.  Certainly in kernel-piggyback mode that step wouldn't get
omitted.

-- 
Anthony de Boer, curator, Anthony's Home for Aged Computing Machinery
<adb@leftmind.net>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-09 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-04 10:37 [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems Dave J Woolley
2001-07-04 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-04 17:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-05  8:20     ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-05  8:34       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-05 11:21       ` Alan Cox
2001-07-05 13:42       ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-05 15:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-06  7:34         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-06  8:45         ` Helge Hafting
2001-07-06 11:16           ` Alan Cox
2001-07-06 12:42             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-09 23:05         ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-07 10:32     ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 11:32       ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-07 13:37         ` Eugene Crosser
2001-07-07 13:50           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:24             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-07 21:31               ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 21:44                 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-07-08  7:26                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-08 16:46                   ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-09 14:40                 ` Anthony DeBoer [this message]
2001-07-07 11:34       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 21:40         ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 21:54           ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:00             ` arjan
2001-07-07 22:15               ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-07 22:04             ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-07 22:14               ` Jamie Lokier
2001-07-08  2:57                 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-12 15:57     ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-12 16:14       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-12 21:18         ` Eric W. Biederman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-06  5:26 Andreas Dilger

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