X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=fe6f74d7d5cb7df00ad6a65e2f2edb3cff97aa5e;hp=a2dc56c3f8a9a2ea37ee762380c70c993043e812;hb=e9ba72c5f5e8d3b86ac38e4e96761e7c0b346276;hpb=794ecd09fc527e3328e469c14e563d42a7a70a39 diff --git a/README b/README index a2dc56c3..fe6f74d7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ INTRODUCTION -This is wimlib version 1.4.0 (May 2013). wimlib is a C library that can be -used to create, modify, extract, and mount files in the Windows Imaging Format -(WIM files). These files are normally created by using the `imagex.exe' utility -on Windows, but wimlib is distributed with a free implementation of ImageX -called "wimlib-imagex" for both UNIX and Windows. +This is wimlib version 1.4.0 (May 2013). wimlib is a C library for creating, +modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM +files). These files are normally created by using the `imagex.exe' utility on +Windows, but wimlib is distributed with a free implementation of ImageX called +"wimlib-imagex" for both UNIX and Windows. INSTALLATION @@ -65,20 +65,21 @@ better than Microsoft's software, especially with multithreaded compression, available in wimlib v1.1.0 and later. The following tables compare the compression ratio and performance for creating -a compressed Windows PE image (disk usage of about 524 MB, uncompressed WIM size -361 MB): +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 (v1.2.1): 138,971,353 bytes 131,379,943 bytes - Microsoft imagex.exe: 140,406,981 bytes 127,249,176 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 (v1.2.1, 2 threads): 11 sec 17 sec - Microsoft imagex.exe: 25 sec 89 sec + wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0, 2 threads): 18 sec 51 sec + Microsoft imagex.exe: 25 sec 93 sec NTFS SUPPORT @@ -242,9 +243,9 @@ see the code and/or ask me if you have any questions about the WIM file format 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 @@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/. You can see the documentation about Microsoft's version of ImageX at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749447(v=ws.10).aspx, so you can -see how it compares to the version provided by this library. +see how it compares to wimlib-imagex. If you are looking for a UNIX archive format that provides features similar to WIM, I recommend you take a look at SquashFS (http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/).