-see how it compares.
-
- GNU/Linux equivalents of WIM format
-
-What's the equivalent way to capture the filesystem of a GNU/Linux operating
-system into an archive file? You have a few options:
-
-SquashFS:
- SquashFS (http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/) provides a compressed,
- read-only filesystem for Linux, and it's probably the closest equivalent
- of the WIM format and better designed. Although you can't mount
- SquashFS read-write, when wimlib does this for WIM files it's really an
- illusion since the WIM isn't actually modified until the image is
- unmounted. Multiple top-level images in SquashFS files are not
- supported, although nothing stops you from just putting each image in a
- separate directory.
-
-FSArchiver:
- FSArchiver (http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page) is not widely used, but
- it appears to have some features quite similar to the WIM format.
-
-Tar:
- The well-known tar format can usually capture a UNIX filesystem just
- fine, and compressing the tar file produces a good compression ratio
- (better than WIM, especially if using XZ compression), but there is no
- support for random access, file deduplication, multiple images per
- archive, or extended attributes.
-
-Zip:
- Zip shares some features with WIM but is not designed to store entire
- filesystems.
-
-7z:
- The 7z format has some nice features but is unfortunately not designed
- with UNIX in mind.
-
- MORE INFORMATION
-
-See the manual pages for `imagex', the manual pages for the subcommands of
-`imagex', and the manual page for `mkwinpeimg'.