From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>,
Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:35:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C4E3B4.80506@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809070117.56503.rob@landley.net>
Rob Landley wrote:
>
> Actually, from what I've seen the main reason lzma doesn't get used for
> tarballs a lot is that whoever originally created it didn't include a
> fingerprint. You can go "file tar.gz" or "file tar.bz2" and it can figure
> out by looking at the contents of the file what it _is_, but last I checked
> there's no obvious way to tell an lzma file from the output of /dev/urandom.
> This causes all sorts of small but annoying problems, and discourages its use
> a bit...
>
Both 7zip and LZMA-Utils have serious file format problems. The author
of LZMA-Utils is working on a new format, which is likely to be widely
adopted once it materializes.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 21:19 [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds Alain Knaff
2008-09-06 22:29 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-09-06 22:59 ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-07 6:17 ` Rob Landley
2008-09-08 8:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-09-08 13:14 ` Jörn Engel
2008-09-07 3:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-07 4:35 ` Steven Noonan
2008-09-07 4:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-07 7:40 ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-07 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-07 7:39 ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-07 8:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-07 9:17 ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-07 5:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-09-07 8:59 ` Alain Knaff
2008-09-15 1:37 ` Rob Landley
2008-09-15 12:46 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2008-09-15 17:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-09-15 17:28 ` Steven Noonan
2008-09-26 18:53 ` Leon Woestenberg
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