Chloe M.
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# The CUMHOLE initial ramdisk format
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Cumhole is a wovely initrd format meant for bundling files into a format in which individual
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files can be extracted by path.
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## What makes this different than e.g., TAR?
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Unlike TAR, CUMHOLE avoids metadata soup and octal encodings, in addition, we employ an offset table
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at the beginning of each archive [as opposed to the end where data is stored] where the minimal metadata
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lives as well as an offset to per-file data!
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