to or from a server over the network to implement fast filesystem imaging and
restore.
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+On UNIX-like systems, support for saving and restoring UNIX uids (user IDs),
+gids (group IDs), and modes to/from WIM images. This is a wimlib extension, but
+the Microsoft implementation ignores this extra metadata.
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Multithreaded compression. By default, data compression is multithreaded and
will use all available processors. In most cases, this can be changed by the
\fB--threads\fR option.
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"ESD file" support. As mentioned in \fBBACKGROUND INFORMATION\fR, "ESD files"
use a new WIM format that features solid blocks and LZMS compression. This
-support was first present in wimlib v1.6.0, but later v1.6 releases have
-improved compatibility.
+support was first present in wimlib v1.6.0, but v1.7.0 and later have improved
+compatibility.
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Mounting WIM images. This relies on FUSE (Filesystem in UserSpacE) and is only
supported on compatible UNIX-like systems, in particular Linux. FreeBSD may