Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:52:24 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file |
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Dave Cinege wrote:
> On Saturday 22 December 2001 21:10, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > cpio is trivial. tar is a bit more painful, but not too bad. gzip is > > > unacceptable, but should not be required. > > > > tar is ugly as hell and not going to be supported on the kernel side. > > Excellent! You've settled on using using an archiver format nobody uses, > instead of the defacto standard that's already been implemented by > atleast two people. > G-E-N-I-U-S!
OK, back into the killfile you go.
Hint: instead of wanking in public try to _think_ for a while. Requirements to archive format: * can be generated with minimum of code * can be parsed <ditto> * can be handled by standard utilities That's it. Both cpio(1) and tar(1) (or pax(1) that can do both) fit the last one. And tar loses on the first two - it's messier. Not much, but enough to make the choice obvious. "Popular" is completely irrelevant here - as long as it's handled by standard UNIX utilities it's OK.
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