Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

From: Anthony DeBoer (adb@leftmind.net)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 09:40:43 EST

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Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>(tar has a silly pad-to-multiple-of-512-byte per file rule, which is
>inappropriate for this). GNU cpio creates cpio format just fine.

Tarballs are almost universally compressed, and that pad squishes fairly
well then. Certainly in kernel-piggyback mode that step wouldn't get
omitted.

-- 
Anthony de Boer, curator, Anthony's Home for Aged Computing Machinery
<adb@leftmind.net>
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