Re: tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file)

H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23T20:01:25Z

Alexander Viro wrote:

>
>>b) No obvious ways to handle hard links, that doesn't require you
>>keeping a table of the inode numbers already seen (at least for which
>>c_nlink > 1) and hard link to them on the decompression side. Since we
>>have an assymetric setup, it seems like its done at the wrong end.
>>
>
> See below.
>

What I perhaps am calling for more than anything else is very precisely
defined semantics of when hard links are generated, and how to control
that. Anyway, I'm about to leave for the holidays, and won't have
email, but I'll think a bit more about this over that time.

-hpa