available in wimlib v1.1.0 and later.
The following tables compare the compression ratio and performance for creating
-a compressed x86_64 Windows PE image. Note: these timings were done in a
-Windows 7 virtual machine so that the times would be fully comparable; however,
-wimlib-imagex will have even better performance on Linux.
+a compressed x86_64 Windows PE image. Note: these timings were done on Windows
+7 so that the times would be fully comparable; however, wimlib-imagex may have
+even better performance on Linux.
Table 1. WIM size
XPRESS Compression LZX Compression
- wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0): 176,724,198 bytes 165,919,718 bytes
- Microsoft imagex.exe: 178,763,991 bytes 160,138,533 bytes
+ wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0): 165,301,379 bytes 155,254,385 bytes
+ Microsoft imagex.exe: 167,212,939 bytes 149,973,212 bytes
Table 2. Time to create WIM
XPRESS Compression LZX Compression
- wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0, 2 threads): 44 sec 66 sec
- Microsoft imagex.exe: 60 sec 115 sec
+ wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0, 2 threads): 18 sec 51 sec
+ Microsoft imagex.exe: 25 sec 93 sec
NTFS SUPPORT
as it exists in reality and not as it exists in Microsoft's poorly written
documentation.
-The code in ntfs-apply.c and ntfs-capture.c uses the NTFS-3g library, which is a
-library for reading and writing to NTFS filesystems (the filesystem used by
-recent versions of Windows). See
+The code in ntfs-3g_apply.c and ntfs-3g_capture.c uses the NTFS-3g library,
+which is a library for reading and writing to NTFS filesystems (the filesystem
+used by recent versions of Windows). See
http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ for more information.
lzx-decompress.c, the code to decompress WIM file resources that are compressed