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#!/bin/bash
# mkramdisk.sh - Create a USTAR tar archive for the MontaukOS ramdisk
# Usage: ./scripts/mkramdisk.sh [input_dir] [output_path]
set -e
INPUT_DIR="${1:-programs/bin}"
OUTPUT_PATH="${2:-ramdisk.tar}"
if [ ! -d "$INPUT_DIR" ]; then
echo "mkramdisk: input directory '$INPUT_DIR' does not exist, creating empty ramdisk"
mkdir -p "$INPUT_DIR"
# Create a placeholder file so the tar isn't completely empty
echo "MontaukOS ramdisk" > "$INPUT_DIR/readme.txt"
fi
# Create USTAR tar archive.
#
# -h (dereference) is NOT optional: Fs/Ramdisk.cpp only recognises typeflag
# '5' (directory), so a symlink entry unpacks as a zero-length regular file --
# silently, with no error anywhere. A staged tree containing symlinks would
# ship empty files. Copying the target in is the only faithful representation.
tar --format=ustar -h -cf "$OUTPUT_PATH" -C "$INPUT_DIR" .
if tar -tvf "$OUTPUT_PATH" | grep -q '^l'; then
echo "mkramdisk: ERROR: symlink survived into $OUTPUT_PATH (would unpack as an empty file)" >&2
tar -tvf "$OUTPUT_PATH" | grep '^l' >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "mkramdisk: created $OUTPUT_PATH from $INPUT_DIR ($(wc -c < "$OUTPUT_PATH") bytes)"