[klibc] Re: INITRAMFS: allow no trailer
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Dec 3 18:11:55 PST 2004
Milton Miller wrote:
>
> hpa points out that you should be careful with the headers, use unique
> inode numbers and/or add a cpio header with just TRAILER!!! to reset
> the inode hash table to avoid unwanted hard links. I just put this
> sequence as the last files loaded.
>
Correction. I just remembered we wrote the spec so that a file with a
link count of 1 is not entered in the hash table and therefore is never
hardlinked. This should do what you need. (This was obviously done for
exactly this reason.)
-hpa
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