Creating a self-booting ZIP archive
Linux initramfs supports unpacking CPIO, a stupid, simple, standardized format. In the discussion on whether to support TAR instead, much emphasize has been put on the fact that CPIO is standardized and less fragmented. Luckily, Linux (the kernel) includes its own tool to produce the specific variant of the standard that it happens to implement. The stan
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