On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:35:22AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know, because tar is probably more widely used and > consequently people are more familiar with how to use it.
As I said before, the cpio format is cleaner/easier to parse in the kernel. Everyone has cpio probably so using tar isn't necessary. > But, that is not as important as having the option of using tmpfs > as the initramfs. Well, it's not clean that we really want this either. I have some niche needs for it but I suspect most people will never use such an option. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
