From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:42:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creator
Message-ID: <426E533C.70502@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20050425153011.34c93b38.paul@permanentmail.com>

Paul Dickson schrieb:
> Use the "newc" format.  The "odc" will generate a lot of errors on a
>  large filesystem (which I discovered this past weekend).

How is that?  I can only imagine problems with the size of individual
files inside an archive because the size field in the header is limited
to 33 bits.

In any case, I switched to the tar format.  It's more complicated but it
turned out that creating these things is still easy.  Parsing them might
be more of a challenge, but we already have tar for that. :-)

See my other mail for more on the tar creator.  I also rebased it to
core GIT because it's no helper script.

Rene