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

Wichert Akkerman
2001-12-23T12:01:41Z

In article <3C25A06D.7030408@zytor.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>What concerns me about cpio in particular:

g) It is impossible to extend without changing the magic at the beginning
of the archive which will make all other cpio-handling tools not accept it.
tar does this better by having per-file types with a nice room for new
types, and older tar implementations will just skip over types they can
not handle.

This is probably not very relevant for this application, but it is something
you might want to remember if you are thinking of using cpio.

Wichert.

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