Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 15:14:07 EST


Daniel Phillips 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.

        -hpa

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