Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Tom Rosenfeld wrote about "Re: faster rsync of huge
directories":
By the way, while "cpio -p" is indeed a good historic tool, nowadays there
is little reason to use it, because GNU's "cp" make it easier to do almost
everything that cpio -p did: The "-a" option to cp is recursive and copies
...
While we are on the topic, I use cpio because I am also "historic" :-) In
the past I had to do similar copies on diff versions of *NIX (even before
rsync was invented!)
That's ok, because I am also "historic" :-) which explains why I even heard
of cpio (nowadays the only people who are likely to have even heard this
name are developers of RPM tools...).
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)
--guy
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