INTRODUCTION
-This is wimlib version 1.6.0 (January 2014). wimlib is a C library for
+This is wimlib version 1.6.1 (January 2014). wimlib is a C library for
creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging
Format (WIM files). These files are normally created using the ImageX
(imagex.exe) or Dism (Dism.exe) utilities on Windows, but wimlib is distributed
compression type is not generally recommended due to its limited
compatibility with the MS implementations.
- [7] '--compress=recovery --packed-streams' or
- '--compress=LZMS --packed-streams' for wimlib-imagex;
- WIMCreateFile with WIM_COMPRESSION_LZMS and flag 0x20000000 for WIMGAPI.
- Compression chunk size in packed resources is 33554432 for wimlib,
- 67108864 for WIMGAPI. Note: this compression type is not generally
- recommended due to its limited compatibility with the MS implementations.
- Also, due to the large chunk size, wimlib uses about 500MB of memory per
- thread when compressing in this format.
+ [7] '--compress=recovery --solid' or '--compress=LZMS --solid' for
+ wimlib-imagex; WIMCreateFile with WIM_COMPRESSION_LZMS and flag
+ 0x20000000 for WIMGAPI. Compression chunk size in packed resources is
+ 33554432 for wimlib, 67108864 for WIMGAPI. Note: this compression type
+ is not generally recommended due to its limited compatibility with the MS
+ implementations. Also, due to the large chunk size, wimlib uses about
+ 500MB of memory per thread when compressing in this format.
The above timings were done on Windows 8 (x86) so that side-by-side comparisons
with the Microsoft implementation would be possible; however, wimlib may have