Hi, I'm using cpio to generate initramfs images that must be bit-for-bit reproducible regardless of the build platform. However, the --reproducible flag does not apply to the hard link count stored in the c_nlink header value[0]. As is, the count depends on the underlying filesystem and is thus not deterministic.
My specific problem is hard link counts differing between darwin and ext4 filesystems, but it seems to me the hard link counts may differ on other filesystems too[1]. Elias [0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/tree/src/util.c#n1136 [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg98964.html
