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26.\" $FreeBSD$
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28.Dd March 17, 2006
29.Dt MKUZIP 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm mkuzip
33.Nd compress disk image for use with
34.Xr geom_uzip 4
35class
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl v
39.Op Fl o Ar outfile
40.Op Fl s Ar cluster_size
41.Op Fl j Ar compression_jobs
42.Ar infile
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46utility compresses a disk image file so that the
47.Xr geom_uzip 4
48class will be able to decompress the resulting image at run-time.
49This allows for a significant reduction of size of disk image at
50the expense of some CPU time required to decompress the data each
51time it is read.
52The
53.Nm
54utility
55works in two phases:
56.Bl -enum
57.It
58An
59.Ar infile
60image is split into clusters; each cluster is compressed using
61.Xr zlib 3
62or
63.Xr lzma 3 .
64.It
65The resulting set of compressed clusters along with headers that allow
66locating each individual cluster is written to the output file.
67.El
68.Pp
69The options are:
70.Bl -tag -width indent
71.It Fl o Ar outfile
72Name of the output file
73.Ar outfile .
74The default is to use the input name with the suffix
75.Pa .uzip
76for the
77.Xr zlib 3
78compression or
79.Pa .ulzma
80for the
81.Xr lzma 3 .
82.It Fl L
83Use
84.Xr lzma 3
85compression algorithm instead of the default
86.Xr zlib 3 .
87The
88.Xr lzma 3
89provides noticeable better compression levels on the same data set
90at the expense of much slower compression speed (10-20x) and somewhat slower
91decompression (2-3x).
92.It Fl s Ar cluster_size
93Split the image into clusters of
94.Ar cluster_size
95bytes, 16384 bytes by default.
96The
97.Ar cluster_size
98should be a multiple of 512 bytes.
99.It Fl v
100Display verbose messages.
101.It Fl Z
102Disable zero-blocks detection and elimination.
103When this option is set, the
104.Nm
105would compress empty blocks (i.e. clusters that consist of only zero bytes)
106just as it would any other block.
107When the option is not set, the
108.Nm
109detects such blocks and skips them from the output.
110Setting
111.Fl Z
112results is slight increase of compressed image size, typically less than 0.1%
113of a final size of the compressed image.
114.It Fl d
115Enable de-duplication.
116When the option is enabled the
117.Nm
118detects identical blocks in the input and replaces each subsequent occurence
119of such block with pointer to the very first one in the output.
120Setting this option results is moderate decrease of compressed image size,
121typically around 3-5% of a final size of the compressed image.
122.It Fl S
123Print summary about the compression ratio as well as output
124file size after file has been processed.
125.It Fl j Ar compression_jobs
126Specify the number of compression jobs that
127.Nm
128runs in parallel to speed up compression.
129When option is not specified the number of jobs set to be equal
130to the value of
131.Va hw.ncpu
132.Xr sysctl 8
133variable.
134.El
135.Sh NOTES
136The compression ratio largely depends on the cluster size used.
137.\" The following two sentences are unclear: how can gzip(1) be
138.\" used in a comparable fashion, and wouldn't a gzip-compressed
139.\" image suffer from larger cluster sizes as well?
140For large cluster sizes (16K and higher), typical compression ratios
141are only 1-2% less than those achieved with
142.Xr gzip 1 .
143However, it should be kept in mind that larger cluster
144sizes lead to higher overhead in the
145.Xr geom_uzip 4
146class, as the class has to decompress the whole cluster even if
147only a few bytes from that cluster have to be read.
148.Pp
149The
150.Nm
151utility
152inserts a short shell script at the beginning of the generated image,
153which makes it possible to
154.Dq run
155the image just like any other shell script.
156The script tries to load the
157.Xr geom_uzip 4
158class if it is not loaded, configure the image as an
159.Xr md 4
160disk device using
161.Xr mdconfig 8 ,
162and automatically mount it using
163.Xr mount_cd9660 8
164on the mount point provided as the first argument to the script.
165.Pp
166The de-duplication is a
167.Fx
168specific feature and while it does not require any changes to on-disk
169compressed image format, however it did require some matching changes to the
170.Xr geom_uzip 4
171to handle resulting images correctly.
172.Sh EXIT STATUS
173.Ex -std
174.Sh SEE ALSO
175.Xr gzip 1 ,
176.Xr xz 1 ,
177.Xr zlib 3 ,
178.Xr lzma 3 ,
179.Xr geom 4 ,
180.Xr geom_uzip 4 ,
181.Xr md 4 ,
182.Xr mdconfig 8 ,
183.Xr mount_cd9660 8
184.Sh AUTHORS
185.An Maxim Sobolev Aq Mt sobomax@FreeBSD.org
186