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

H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23T19:28:59Z

Alexander Viro wrote:
>

> I doubt that extra utilities are worth the effort. Said that, layout
> of the damn thing is nowhere near the top of the list of things that
> worry me - as long as it's well-defined, can be handled from userland
> and can be easily unpacked I'm OK with it.

[...]

>
> Frankly, holy wars over layout of archive look rather pointless. _That_
> is trivial to change at any point until the moment when it hits the main
> tree. Getting late-boot code clean is the real problem.

>

Agreed, of course. I just happen to be approaching this from this end,
with considering what kind of boot loader changes are desirable.

-hpa

P.S. As far as the umsdos pivot thing is concerned, I always considered
it to be a bug that it was only applicable to the root. I would like to
suggest making it a mount option instead.