Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft

[Daniel Phillips]

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.

   "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."

--
Daniel