[PLUG] initrd files are cpio archives

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 21:54:22 UTC 2007


# from John Jason Jordan
# on Thursday 18 October 2007 11:56:

>> > Hmm...  I guess Russell had already explained that.  Did you read
>> > that bit?
>
>Yes, but I thought that Ark would know what they are and use
>appropriate unzipping tools, which I think it did.

Ark rarely gets anything right.  If you don't see a file tree, it isn't 
reading cpio.

--Eric
-- 
So malloc calls a timeout and starts rummaging around the free chain,
sorting things out, and merging adjacent small free blocks into larger
blocks. This takes 3 1/2 days.
--Joel Spolsky
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