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On January 15, 2002 09:14 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > You apparently wrote: > > > I don't think think this application alone is enough to add Yet Another > > > Version of CPIO. However, if there are more compelling reasons to do so > > > for CPIO backup reasons itself I guess we could write it up and add it > > > to GNU cpio as "linux" format... > > > > Oh, it is, really it is. It's not just any application, and GNU already > > has its own verion of cpio. > > But not their own data format. From the man page: "The new ASCII format is portable between different machine architectures and can be used on any size file system, but is not supported by all versions of cpio; currently, it is only supported by GNU and Unix System V R4." -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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