From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: 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 12:00:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C2637EF.4050007@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112230849550.23300-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-23 20:01 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
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 [this message]
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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