From: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file)
Date: 23 Dec 2001 13:01:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a04h2c$nn7$1@picard.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112222109050.21702-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <3C25A06D.7030408@zytor.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-23 12:01 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 [this message]
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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