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FromDaniel Phillips <>
SubjectRe: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft
DateWed, 16 Jan 2002 00:01:21 +0100
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
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