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.\" $NetBSD: vndcompress.1,v 1.9 2013/05/04 07:13:23 wiz Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2013 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" This documentation is derived from text contributed to The NetBSD
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.\" Foundation by Taylor R. Campbell.
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.Dd April 27, 2013
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.Dt VNDCOMPRESS 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm vndcompress ,
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.Nm vnduncompress
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.Nd compress and uncompress disk images in cloop2 format
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl c
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.Op Fl rR
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.Op Fl k Ar checkpoint-blocks
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.Op Fl p Ar partial-offset
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.Op Fl s Ar blocksize
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.Ar image
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.Ar compressed-image
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.Op Ar blocksize
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.Nm vnduncompress
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.Op Fl d
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.Ar compressed-image
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.Ar image
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility compresses disk images in cloop2 format, which the kernel's
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.Xr vnd 4
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device can interpret as read-only disk devices using the
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.Fl z
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option to
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.Xr vnconfig 8 .
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.Pp
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By default,
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.Nm vndcompress
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compresses an image, and
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.Nm vnduncompress
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uncompresses an image, but the
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.Fl c
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and
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.Fl d
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options can control whether either utility compresses or decompresses.
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.Pp
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The following options are available for the compression operation:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl k Ar checkpoint-blocks
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Write a checkpoint after every
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.Ar checkpoint-blocks
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blocks of output.
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If interrupted,
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.Nm
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can restart at the last checkpoint with the
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.Fl r
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option.
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You can also request a checkpoint at any time by sending
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.Dv SIGUSR2
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to the
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.Nm
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process.
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.It Fl l Ar length
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Specify the length of the input, so that the input may be a pipe,
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socket, or FIFO.
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Otherwise, the input must know its size, i.e. must have its size
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reported in
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.Fa st_size
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by
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.Xr fstat 2 .
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.It Fl p Ar partial-blocks
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Stop after writing
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.Ar partial-blocks
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blocks of output.
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This option is mainly useful for automatic testing of restarts.
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.It Fl R
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With the
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.Fl r
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option, if restarting fails, then abort right now and don't touch the
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output file.
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.It Fl r
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Try to restart a partial compression from the last checkpoint.
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If restarting fails, and the
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.Fl R
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option is not specified, then truncate the output file and start
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compression afresh.
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Restarting may fail for various reasons: if there have been no
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checkpoints, or if the output file has been corrupted in some easily
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recognizable ways, or if the input file's size has changed, or if the
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block size does not match, and so on.
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.It Fl s Ar blocksize
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Set the compression block size to
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.Ar blocksize ,
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which must be a multiple of 512 and must be no more than 4294966784, or
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0xfffffe00.
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(On 32-bit systems, the limit may be smaller, limited by the available
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virtual address space.)
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.Pp
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For compatibility with the old version of
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.Nm ,
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the compression block size may instead be specified at the end of the
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command line.
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.El
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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.Ex -std
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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Compress an ISO 9660 CD-ROM image:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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# vndcompress cdrom.iso cdrom.izo
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Send a 59 GB disk partition over a local network with netcat (don't do
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this over the internet!):
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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# nc 10.0.1.2 12345 < /dev/rcgd1h
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Receive it and save it compressed on another host, showing a progress
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bar interactively, restarting if possible, and taking a checkpoint
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every 16 MB (i.e., every 256 compression blocks, which are 64 KB by
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default):
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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# nc -l 12345 | progress -l 59g \e
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vndcompress -l 59g -k 256 -r /dev/stdin disk.cloop2
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.Ed
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.Pp
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If the process is interrupted and you rewire your network and disks so
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that the receiving host now has the disk you want to image, you can
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start up where you left off, using the
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.Fl R
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option to keep
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.Nm
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from clobbering the partial transfer if anything goes wrong:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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# vndcompress -l 59g -k 256 -rR /dev/rcgd1h disk.cloop2
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Mount the disk with
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.Xr vnd 4 ,
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assuming your kernel was built with the
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.Dv VND_COMPRESSION
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option enabled:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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# vnconfig -z vnd0 disk.cloop2
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# mount /dev/vnd0d /mnt
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.Ed
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.Sh SIGNALS
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.Nm
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responds to the following signals:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Dv SIGINFO , Dv SIGUSR1
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Report progress to standard error.
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.It Dv SIGUSR2
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Write a checkpoint to disk now.
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.El
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.Sh FORMAT
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The cloop2 format consists of a header, an offset table, and a sequence
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of compressed blocks.
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The header is described by the following packed structure:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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struct cloop2_header {
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char cl2h_magic[128];
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uint32_t cl2h_blocksize;
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uint32_t cl2h_n_blocks;
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} __packed;
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The
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.Fa cl2h_magic
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field is an arbitrary sequence of 128 bits, the
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.Fa cl2h_blocksize
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field is a big-endian integer number of bytes per compression block,
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and the
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.Fa cl2h_n_blocks
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field is a big-endian integer number of the compression blocks in the
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image.
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.Pp
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The offset table is a sequence of one more than
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.Fa cl2h_n_blocks
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big-endian 64-bit integers specifying the offset of each compression
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block relative to the start of the file.
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The extra offset specifies the end of the last compression block, which
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may be truncated if the uncompressed image's size is not a multiple of
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the compression block size.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr vnd 4 ,
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.Xr vnconfig 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command first appeared in
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.Nx 3.0 .
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It was rewritten to be more robust and to support restarting partial
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transfers in
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.Nx 7.0 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The amount of memory consumed by
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.Nm
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and
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.Nm vnduncompress
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is proportional to the number of compression blocks they process,
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because they store the whole offset table in memory at once.
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Instead, they should use a limited-size window into the offset table.
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