Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:17:48 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file) |
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T. A. wrote:
> What about considering one of the simpler filesystems or archive formats > instead? How much "Unix"-ism is required to be retained in the archive? > (permissions, device files, etc?) >
They're MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH worse. Don't even think abou it.
> As for the bigendianness... Is it really relevant since each kernel is > tied to its own platform? And if it is may it be better to use the native > format of the 98% or so of the Linux machines out there which are > littleendian (performance and ease of general access on the majority of host > machines comes to mind).
This was discussed recently... doing a nonportable format is begging for problems. The only reason I'm suggesting bigendian is that conversion to bigendian macros are more widely available in the form of the standard hton macros.
-hpa
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