I'm working on an embedded system with the 2.6 kernel -- cpio initrd was a new feature I'm looking at (and very welcome).
The major advantage I see is you don't have MAKE a filesystem on the build host (doing cross development). So you don't have to be root. But its "useful" to change permissions/ownership of the initrd files at times... Since a cpio is just a userspace created string of bits, I suppose you can apply a set of ownership/permissions to files IN the archive by playing with the bits... Does such a tool exist? Comments? Seems very useful in order to avoid being root... marty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
