faster rsync of huge directories

[Shachar Shemesh]

guy keren wrote:
>
> as well as sys admins/kernel developers - the initrd file on (some?) 
> linux distributions is a gziped cpio file (at least on RHEL 5.X)
>
"Initrd" can come in one of two formats. These are either some (any) 
file system (you usually use some read only file system, most common of 
which is cramfs). If that is the case, the image is called "initrd", and 
is available since 2.4 kernels. The other option is to put the files 
inside a cpio archive. If that is the case, the image is called 
"initramfs", and is the new method (i.e. - 2.6).

Initramfs is the preferred method of creating initrd images, and so you 
can say that cpio is making a comeback... :-)

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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