Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23T08:07:16Z

Followup to: <E16I2rw-0006zi-00@sites.inka.de>
By author: Bernd Eckenfels <usenet2001-12@lina.inka.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > How many times have you seen ANYTHING ditributed that way?
>
> AFAIK cpio is quite common on SysV Systems. The Problem with cpio and tar is,
> that there are many incompatible versions. Even the Posix.1 format is quite
> limited (255 char path limit).

This is the POSIX.1 *TAR* format. The POSIX.1 *CPIO* format doesn't
have this limitation.

> Some others fail short with symlinks or block
> device nodes.

Only utterly archaic versions, never used on Linux.

> AFAIK SUS is supporting the use of pax.
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/pax.html

Pax is just a single utility which does cpio and tar.

Al is using a specific cpio format, which I believe is either the
"newc" or "odc" format... Al?

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