Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] initramfs | Date | 4 May 2002 15:04:12 -0700 |
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Followup to: <1744hw-0EYlYuC@fwd01.sul.t-online.com> By author: "ChristianK."@t-online.de (Christian Koenig) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I have tried to implement the "initramfs buffer spec -- third draft" by hpa > and Al Viro. > > It isn't complete yet, because off the following unresolved topics: > 1. For the moment it only supports files,dirs and symlinks. > 2. It still needs the "RAM disk" and "initrd" support compiled in the Kernel. > 3. I haven't tried to support hardlinks. > 4. Since i use the ramdisk for decompression the cpio image must be a > multiple of BLOCK_SIZE bytes. > 5. The cpio crc field is ignored. > > I have done this only for testing if the "initramfs buffer spec -- third > draft" suffers all requirements. And to give a starting point for > implementing this. The patch works for linux 2.5.9 - 2.5.13. > > The only problem i found is that after a "TRAILER!!!" cpio (per default) > align on a 512 bytes boundary, not 4 bytes.
This is consistent with the spec. It isn't *required* by the spec, but a data generator is free to add arbitrary amounts of zero-padding.
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