On 10.04.19 21:19, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > - we use cpio for initramfs because unpacking cpio in C code is > fairly simple, while unpacking tar is not (see the wikipedia page on tar). > If we were to unpack it from the kernel, the initramfs code could be > trivially reused. What about ar ? ;-) > - nobody sane uses cpio in user space, since tar is already present > almost everywhere, while cpio is rather obscure in comparison. So, rpm doesn't count as "sane" ? :o --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@xxxxxxxxx -- +49-151-27565287
