Re: initramfs buffer spec -- third draft

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:15:29 -0700

On Jan 13, 2002 14:37 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > initramfs :=3D ("\0" | cpio_archive | cpio_gzip_archive)*
> > >
> > > cpio_gzip_archive :=3D GZIP(cpio_archive)
>
> Allow GZIP(cpio_file* + cpio_trailer), which is in fact a very common
> configuration.

So, just to clarify, if you have multiple cpio archives concatenated,
they are gzipped separately before concatenation, or gzipped after
concatenation?

Cheers, Andreas

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