From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "T. A." <tkhoadfdsaf@hotmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file)
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:17:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C262DDC.1040103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112222109050.21702-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <3C25A06D.7030408@zytor.com> <OE15yZcIaeZ2FTVPuxT00007b64@hotmail.com>
T. A. wrote:
> What about considering one of the simpler filesystems or archive formats
> instead? How much "Unix"-ism is required to be retained in the archive?
> (permissions, device files, etc?)
>
They're MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH worse. Don't even think abou it.
> As for the bigendianness... Is it really relevant since each kernel is
> tied to its own platform? And if it is may it be better to use the native
> format of the 98% or so of the Linux machines out there which are
> littleendian (performance and ease of general access on the majority of host
> machines comes to mind).
This was discussed recently... doing a nonportable format is begging for
problems. The only reason I'm suggesting bigendian is that conversion
to bigendian macros are more widely available in the form of the
standard hton macros.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-23 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-17 22:10 Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file Grover, Andrew
2001-12-18 2:31 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-18 5:46 ` Craig Christophel
2001-12-23 0:28 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 0:44 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 1:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 2:10 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 3:00 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 3:52 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 4:41 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-23 5:52 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 7:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-23 8:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 12:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-23 20:58 ` Erik Mouw
2001-12-23 9:14 ` tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file) H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 19:53 ` T. A.
2001-12-23 19:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-12-23 9:51 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-23 9:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 12:01 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-12-23 14:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-18 15:26 ` Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file / Making Linux multiboot capable and grub loading kernel modules at boot time Christian Koenig
2001-12-18 18:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
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