Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:01:21 +0100 |
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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."
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