[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >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. > > Cpio is perhaps as available as tar, but it's not as used as tar. > > Unless tar would be inordinately larger than a cpio implementation > (I can't imagine, but I'm not a coder!) I would prefer it.
There are literaly dozens of "tar" formats around, cpio is much more standardized (and simpler). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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/