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@ -332,53 +332,53 @@ SquashFS that is the default setting for DwarFS:
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For DwarFS, I'm sticking to the defaults:
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For DwarFS, I'm sticking to the defaults:
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$ time mkdwarfs -i install -o perl-install.dwarfs
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$ time mkdwarfs -i install -o perl-install.dwarfs
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19:35:38.104864 scanning install
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18:06:32.393073 scanning install
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19:35:50.481783 waiting for background scanners...
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18:06:50.157744 waiting for background scanners...
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19:37:42.425217 assigning directory and link inodes...
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18:07:24.659010 assigning directory and link inodes...
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19:37:42.832262 finding duplicate files...
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18:07:25.056728 finding duplicate files...
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19:37:59.513989 saved 28.2 GiB / 47.65 GiB in 1782826/1927501 duplicate files
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18:07:41.914170 saved 28.2 GiB / 47.65 GiB in 1782826/1927501 duplicate files
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19:37:59.514061 waiting for inode scanners...
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18:07:41.914243 waiting for inode scanners...
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19:38:33.911012 assigning device inodes...
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18:08:16.065580 assigning device inodes...
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19:38:33.967734 assigning pipe/socket inodes...
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18:08:16.126759 assigning pipe/socket inodes...
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19:38:34.023778 building metadata...
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18:08:16.185546 building metadata...
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19:38:34.023900 building blocks...
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18:08:16.185628 building blocks...
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19:38:34.023935 saving names and links...
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18:08:16.185730 saving names and links...
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19:38:34.025091 ordering 144675 inodes using nilsimsa similarity...
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18:08:16.186987 ordering 144675 inodes using nilsimsa similarity...
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19:38:34.033828 nilsimsa: depth=25000, limit=255
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18:08:16.196982 nilsimsa: depth=20000, limit=255
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19:38:34.505456 updating name and link indices...
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18:08:16.665114 updating name and link indices...
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19:38:34.984478 pre-sorted index (1016186 name, 639519 path lookups) [950.6ms]
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18:08:17.134243 pre-sorted index (1016186 name, 639519 path lookups) [937.2ms]
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19:47:11.530656 144675 inodes ordered [517.5s]
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18:15:49.332792 144675 inodes ordered [453.1s]
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19:47:11.530750 waiting for segmenting/blockifying to finish...
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18:15:49.332890 waiting for segmenting/blockifying to finish...
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19:51:40.399851 saving chunks...
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18:19:33.746355 saving chunks...
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19:51:40.438092 saving directories...
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18:19:33.779313 saving directories...
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19:51:45.202445 waiting for compression to finish...
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18:19:38.284634 waiting for compression to finish...
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19:52:47.077210 compressed 47.65 GiB to 486.8 MiB (ratio=0.00997673)
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18:20:47.316245 compressed 47.65 GiB to 471.7 MiB (ratio=0.00966738)
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19:52:47.763533 filesystem created without errors [1030s]
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18:20:48.027411 filesystem created without errors [855.6s]
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⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
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waiting for block compression to finish
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waiting for block compression to finish
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330733 dirs, 0/2440 soft/hard links, 1927501/1927501 files, 0 other
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330733 dirs, 0/2440 soft/hard links, 1927501/1927501 files, 0 other
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original size: 47.65 GiB, dedupe: 28.2 GiB (1782826 files), segment: 12.61 GiB
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original size: 47.65 GiB, dedupe: 28.2 GiB (1782826 files), segment: 12.62 GiB
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filesystem: 6.842 GiB in 438 blocks (757215 chunks, 144675/144675 inodes)
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filesystem: 6.832 GiB in 438 blocks (477878 chunks, 144675/144675 inodes)
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compressed filesystem: 438 blocks/486.8 MiB written
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compressed filesystem: 438 blocks/471.7 MiB written
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████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏100% -
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real 17m9.873s
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real 14m15.783s
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user 135m47.100s
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user 133m57.608s
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sys 3m44.958s
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sys 2m52.546s
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So in this comparison, `mkdwarfs` is more than 4 times faster than `mksquashfs`.
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So in this comparison, `mkdwarfs` is almost 5 times faster than `mksquashfs`.
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In total CPU time, it actually uses 6 times less CPU resources.
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In total CPU time, it actually uses 6 times less CPU resources.
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$ ls -l perl-install.*fs
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$ ls -l perl-install.*fs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 510428994 Dec 9 19:52 perl-install.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 494602224 Dec 10 18:20 perl-install.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 4748902400 Nov 25 00:37 perl-install.squashfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 4748902400 Nov 25 00:37 perl-install.squashfs
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In terms of compression ratio, the **DwarFS file system is more than 9 times
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In terms of compression ratio, the **DwarFS file system is almost 10 times
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smaller than the SquashFS file system**. With DwarFS, the content has been
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smaller than the SquashFS file system**. With DwarFS, the content has been
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**compressed down to less than 1% (!) of its original size**. This compression
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**compressed down to less than 1% (!) of its original size**. This compression
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ratio only considers the data stored in the individual files, not the actual
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ratio only considers the data stored in the individual files, not the actual
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disk space used. On the original EXT4 file system, according to `du`, the
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disk space used. On the original EXT4 file system, according to `du`, the
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source folder uses 54 GiB, so **the DwarFS image actually only uses 0.88% of
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source folder uses 54 GiB, so **the DwarFS image actually only uses 0.85% of
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the original space**.
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the original space**.
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When using identical block sizes for both file systems, the difference,
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When using identical block sizes for both file systems, the difference,
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$ time mkdwarfs -i install -o perl-install-1M.dwarfs -S 20
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$ time mkdwarfs -i install -o perl-install-1M.dwarfs -S 20
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real 26m39.166s
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real 24m38.027s
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user 266m15.018s
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user 282m37.305s
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sys 2m15.315s
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sys 2m37.558s
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$ ls -l perl-install-1M.*
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$ ls -l perl-install-1M.*
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 2962199351 Dec 9 21:13 perl-install-1M.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 2953052798 Dec 10 18:47 perl-install-1M.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 4198944768 Nov 30 10:05 perl-install-1M.squashfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 4198944768 Nov 30 10:05 perl-install-1M.squashfs
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But the point is that this is really where SquashFS tops out, as it doesn't
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But the point is that this is really where SquashFS tops out, as it doesn't
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a full rebuild of the file system. For example, recompressing the above file
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a full rebuild of the file system. For example, recompressing the above file
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system with the best possible compression (`-l 9`):
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system with the best possible compression (`-l 9`):
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$ time mkdwarfs --recompress -i perl-install.dwarfs -o perl-lzma.dwarfs -l 9
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$ time mkdwarfs --recompress -i perl-install.dwarfs -o perl-lzma.dwarfs -l 9
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20:35:11.312517 filesystem rewritten [610s]
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20:44:43.738823 filesystem rewritten [385.4s]
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⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
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filesystem: 6.842 GiB in 438 blocks (0 chunks, 0 inodes)
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filesystem: 6.832 GiB in 438 blocks (0 chunks, 0 inodes)
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compressed filesystem: 438/438 blocks/407.5 MiB written
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compressed filesystem: 438/438 blocks/408.9 MiB written
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█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏100% -
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real 10m10.098s
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real 6m25.474s
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user 117m43.919s
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sys 1m40.449s
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sys 1m37.701s
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$ ls -l perl-*.dwarfs
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$ ls -l perl-*.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 510428994 Dec 9 19:52 perl-install.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 494602224 Dec 10 18:20 perl-install.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 427324302 Dec 9 20:35 perl-lzma.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 428802416 Dec 10 20:44 perl-lzma.dwarfs
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This reduces the file system size by another 16%, pushing the total
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This reduces the file system size by another 13%, pushing the total
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compression ratio to 0.84% (or 0.74% when considering disk usage).
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compression ratio to 0.84% (or 0.74% when considering disk usage).
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In terms of how fast the file system is when using it, a quick test
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In terms of how fast the file system is when using it, a quick test
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so in order to preserve those, we pass `--with-devices` to `mkdwarfs`:
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so in order to preserve those, we pass `--with-devices` to `mkdwarfs`:
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$ time sudo mkdwarfs -i raspbian -o raspbian.dwarfs --with-devices
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$ time sudo mkdwarfs -i raspbian -o raspbian.dwarfs --with-devices
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20:38:27.027066 scanning raspbian
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20:49:45.099221 scanning raspbian
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20:38:27.303344 waiting for background scanners...
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20:38:27.897725 assigning directory and link inodes...
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20:49:46.019979 assigning directory and link inodes...
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20:38:27.912619 finding duplicate files...
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20:49:46.035099 finding duplicate files...
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20:38:27.993716 saved 31.05 MiB / 1007 MiB in 1617/34582 duplicate files
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20:49:46.148490 saved 31.05 MiB / 1007 MiB in 1617/34582 duplicate files
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20:38:27.993807 waiting for inode scanners...
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20:38:30.347655 assigning device inodes...
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20:38:30.349817 building metadata...
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20:49:48.520322 building metadata...
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20:38:30.349871 building blocks...
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20:38:30.349928 saving names and links...
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20:38:30.350001 ordering 32965 inodes using nilsimsa similarity...
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20:38:30.405993 pre-sorted index (55243 name, 26489 path lookups) [54.25ms]
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20:49:48.577389 pre-sorted index (55243 name, 26489 path lookups) [54.95ms]
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20:39:45.269645 32965 inodes ordered [74.92s]
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20:40:12.221693 compressed 1007 MiB to 287.3 MiB (ratio=0.285326)
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20:51:31.098179 compressed 1007 MiB to 286.6 MiB (ratio=0.284714)
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20:40:12.253930 filesystem created without errors [105.2s]
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20:51:31.140186 filesystem created without errors [106s]
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original size: 1007 MiB, dedupe: 31.05 MiB (1617 files), segment: 52.83 MiB
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original size: 1007 MiB, dedupe: 31.05 MiB (1617 files), segment: 46.9 MiB
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filesystem: 922.8 MiB in 58 blocks (46518 chunks, 32965/32965 inodes)
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$ time sudo time mksquashfs raspbian raspbian.squashfs -comp zstd -Xcompression-level 22
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Creating 4.0 filesystem on raspbian.squashfs, block size 131072.
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 297M Aug 20 12:47 2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.img.xz
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⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
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⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
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filesystem: 922.8 MiB in 58 blocks (0 chunks, 0 inodes)
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compressed filesystem: 58/58 blocks/257.8 MiB written
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compressed filesystem: 59/59 blocks/257.7 MiB written
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██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏100% |
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Now that actually gets the DwarFS image size well below that of the
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Now that actually gets the DwarFS image size well below that of the
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`xz` archive:
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`xz` archive:
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$ ll -h raspbian-9.dwarfs *.xz
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$ ls -lh raspbian-9.dwarfs *.xz
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 258M Dec 9 22:40 raspbian-9.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 297M Aug 20 12:47 2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.img.xz
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However, if you actually build a tarball and compress that (instead of
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$ ll -h raspbian.tar.xz
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$ ls -lh raspbian.tar.xz
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 246M Nov 30 00:16 raspbian.tar.xz
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In summary, DwarFS can get pretty close to an `xz` compressed tarball
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In summary, DwarFS can get pretty close to an `xz` compressed tarball
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in terms of size. It's also about twice as fast to build the file
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in terms of size. It's also almsot three times faster to build the file
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system than to build the tarball. At the same time, SquashFS really
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system than to build the tarball. At the same time, SquashFS really
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isn't that much worse. It's really the cases where you *know* upfront
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isn't that much worse. It's really the cases where you *know* upfront
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that your data is highly redundant where DwarFS can play out its full
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that your data is highly redundant where DwarFS can play out its full
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$ ll perl-install.*
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$ ll perl-install.*
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 510428994 Dec 9 19:52 perl-install.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 494602224 Dec 10 18:20 perl-install.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 1016971956 Dec 6 00:12 perl-install.wim
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 1016971956 Dec 6 00:12 perl-install.wim
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 4748902400 Nov 25 00:37 perl-install.squashfs
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So wimlib is definitely much better than squashfs, in terms of both
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So wimlib is definitely much better than squashfs, in terms of both
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compression ratio and speed. DwarFS is still about 20% faster to create
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compression ratio and speed. DwarFS is still about 35% faster to create
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the file system and the DwarFS file system is almost 50% smaller.
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the file system and the DwarFS file system less than half the size.
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When switching to LZMA and metadata compression, the DwarFS file system
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When switching to LZMA compression, the DwarFS file system is almost
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is almost 60% smaller (wimlib uses LZMS compression by default). And
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60% smaller (wimlib uses LZMS compression by default).
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when ultimately using the same block size as wimlib (64 MiB) for DwarFS,
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the file system image shrinks down to 1/3 the size of the *wim* file:
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 335611507 Dec 9 23:11 perl-install-64M.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 1016971956 Dec 6 00:12 perl-install.wim
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What's a bit surprising is that mounting a *wim* file takes quite a bit
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What's a bit surprising is that mounting a *wim* file takes quite a bit
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of time:
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of time:
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@ -789,7 +781,7 @@ of time:
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Mounting the DwarFS image takes almost no time in comparison:
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Mounting the DwarFS image takes almost no time in comparison:
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$ time dwarfs perl-install.dwarfs mnt
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$ time dwarfs perl-install.dwarfs mnt
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00:36:42.626580 dwarfs (0.2.3)
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00:36:42.626580 dwarfs (0.3.0)
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real 0m0.010s
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user 0m0.001s
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@ -798,10 +790,17 @@ Mounting the DwarFS image takes almost no time in comparison:
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That's just because it immediately forks into background by default and
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That's just because it immediately forks into background by default and
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||||||
initializes the file system in the background. However, even when
|
initializes the file system in the background. However, even when
|
||||||
running it in the foreground, initializing the file system takes only
|
running it in the foreground, initializing the file system takes only
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a few milliseconds:
|
slightly longer than 100 milliseconds:
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$ dwarfs perl-install.dwarfs mnt -f
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$ dwarfs perl-install.dwarfs mnt -f
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00:35:44.975437 dwarfs (0.2.3)
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21:01:34.554090 dwarfs (0.3.0)
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||||||
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21:01:34.695661 file system initialized [137.9ms]
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||||||
|
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|
If you actually build the DwarFS file system with uncompressed metadata,
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||||||
|
mounting is basically instantaneous:
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||||||
|
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|
$ dwarfs perl-install-meta.dwarfs mnt -f
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||||||
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00:35:44.975437 dwarfs (0.3.0)
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||||||
00:35:44.987450 file system initialized [5.064ms]
|
00:35:44.987450 file system initialized [5.064ms]
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|
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I've tried running the benchmark where all 1139 `perl` executables
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I've tried running the benchmark where all 1139 `perl` executables
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||||||
@ -946,46 +945,46 @@ a lot less redundancy:
|
|||||||
And repeating the same task with `mkdwarfs`:
|
And repeating the same task with `mkdwarfs`:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ time mkdwarfs -i install-small -o perl-install-small.dwarfs
|
$ time mkdwarfs -i install-small -o perl-install-small.dwarfs
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||||||
23:16:57.167629 scanning install-small
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21:13:38.131724 scanning install-small
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||||||
23:16:57.391819 waiting for background scanners...
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21:13:38.320139 waiting for background scanners...
|
||||||
23:16:57.796123 assigning directory and link inodes...
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21:13:38.727024 assigning directory and link inodes...
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||||||
23:16:57.801648 finding duplicate files...
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21:13:38.731807 finding duplicate files...
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||||||
23:16:57.920016 saved 267.8 MiB / 611.8 MiB in 22842/26401 duplicate files
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21:13:38.832524 saved 267.8 MiB / 611.8 MiB in 22842/26401 duplicate files
|
||||||
23:16:57.920098 waiting for inode scanners...
|
21:13:38.832598 waiting for inode scanners...
|
||||||
23:16:58.715802 assigning device inodes...
|
21:13:39.619963 assigning device inodes...
|
||||||
23:16:58.716760 assigning pipe/socket inodes...
|
21:13:39.620855 assigning pipe/socket inodes...
|
||||||
23:16:58.717360 building metadata...
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21:13:39.621356 building metadata...
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||||||
23:16:58.717455 building blocks...
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21:13:39.621453 building blocks...
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||||||
23:16:58.717495 saving names and links...
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21:13:39.621472 saving names and links...
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||||||
23:16:58.717663 ordering 3559 inodes using nilsimsa similarity...
|
21:13:39.621655 ordering 3559 inodes using nilsimsa similarity...
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||||||
23:16:58.718019 nilsimsa: depth=25000, limit=255
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21:13:39.622031 nilsimsa: depth=20000, limit=255
|
||||||
23:16:58.724538 updating name and link indices...
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21:13:39.629206 updating name and link indices...
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||||||
23:16:58.726197 pre-sorted index (3360 name, 2127 path lookups) [8.088ms]
|
21:13:39.630142 pre-sorted index (3360 name, 2127 path lookups) [8.014ms]
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||||||
23:16:58.870936 3559 inodes ordered [153.2ms]
|
21:13:39.752051 3559 inodes ordered [130.3ms]
|
||||||
23:16:58.871021 waiting for segmenting/blockifying to finish...
|
21:13:39.752101 waiting for segmenting/blockifying to finish...
|
||||||
23:17:17.143687 saving chunks...
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21:13:53.250951 saving chunks...
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||||||
23:17:17.144423 saving directories...
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21:13:53.251581 saving directories...
|
||||||
23:17:17.198977 waiting for compression to finish...
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21:13:53.303862 waiting for compression to finish...
|
||||||
23:17:29.321495 compressed 611.8 MiB to 24.18 MiB (ratio=0.039523)
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21:14:11.073273 compressed 611.8 MiB to 24.01 MiB (ratio=0.0392411)
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||||||
23:17:29.337482 filesystem created without errors [32.17s]
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21:14:11.091099 filesystem created without errors [32.96s]
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||||||
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
|
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
|
||||||
waiting for block compression to finish
|
waiting for block compression to finish
|
||||||
3334 dirs, 0/0 soft/hard links, 26401/26401 files, 0 other
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3334 dirs, 0/0 soft/hard links, 26401/26401 files, 0 other
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||||||
original size: 611.8 MiB, dedupe: 267.8 MiB (22842 files), segment: 130 MiB
|
original size: 611.8 MiB, dedupe: 267.8 MiB (22842 files), segment: 121.5 MiB
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||||||
filesystem: 214.1 MiB in 14 blocks (10229 chunks, 3559/3559 inodes)
|
filesystem: 222.5 MiB in 14 blocks (7177 chunks, 3559/3559 inodes)
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||||||
compressed filesystem: 14 blocks/24.18 MiB written
|
compressed filesystem: 14 blocks/24.01 MiB written
|
||||||
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏100% \
|
██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏100% \
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||||||
|
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||||||
real 0m32.230s
|
real 0m33.007s
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||||||
user 3m37.366s
|
user 3m43.324s
|
||||||
sys 0m3.950s
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sys 0m4.015s
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||||||
|
|
||||||
So `mkdwarfs` is about 50 times faster than `mkcromfs` and uses 80 times
|
So `mkdwarfs` is about 50 times faster than `mkcromfs` and uses 75 times
|
||||||
less CPU resources. At the same time, the DwarFS file system is 30% smaller:
|
less CPU resources. At the same time, the DwarFS file system is 30% smaller:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ ls -l perl-install-small.*fs
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$ ls -l perl-install-small.*fs
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||||||
-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 35328512 Dec 8 14:25 perl-install-small.cromfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 35328512 Dec 8 14:25 perl-install-small.cromfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 25355862 Dec 9 23:17 perl-install-small.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 25175016 Dec 10 21:14 perl-install-small.dwarfs
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||||||
|
|
||||||
I noticed that the `blockifying` step that took ages for the full dataset
|
I noticed that the `blockifying` step that took ages for the full dataset
|
||||||
with `mkcromfs` ran substantially faster (in terms of MiB/second) on the
|
with `mkcromfs` ran substantially faster (in terms of MiB/second) on the
|
||||||
@ -996,48 +995,48 @@ In order to be completely fair, I also ran `mkdwarfs` with `-l 9` to enable
|
|||||||
LZMA compression (which is what `mkcromfs` uses by default):
|
LZMA compression (which is what `mkcromfs` uses by default):
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ time mkdwarfs -i install-small -o perl-install-small-l9.dwarfs -l 9
|
$ time mkdwarfs -i install-small -o perl-install-small-l9.dwarfs -l 9
|
||||||
23:20:50.363882 scanning install-small
|
21:16:21.874975 scanning install-small
|
||||||
23:20:50.584318 waiting for background scanners...
|
21:16:22.092201 waiting for background scanners...
|
||||||
23:20:50.970406 assigning directory and link inodes...
|
21:16:22.489470 assigning directory and link inodes...
|
||||||
23:20:50.976176 finding duplicate files...
|
21:16:22.495216 finding duplicate files...
|
||||||
23:20:51.091204 saved 267.8 MiB / 611.8 MiB in 22842/26401 duplicate files
|
21:16:22.611221 saved 267.8 MiB / 611.8 MiB in 22842/26401 duplicate files
|
||||||
23:20:51.091322 waiting for inode scanners...
|
21:16:22.611314 waiting for inode scanners...
|
||||||
23:20:51.877998 assigning device inodes...
|
21:16:23.394332 assigning device inodes...
|
||||||
23:20:51.878976 assigning pipe/socket inodes...
|
21:16:23.395184 assigning pipe/socket inodes...
|
||||||
23:20:51.879486 building metadata...
|
21:16:23.395616 building metadata...
|
||||||
23:20:51.879548 building blocks...
|
21:16:23.395676 building blocks...
|
||||||
23:20:51.879587 saving names and links...
|
21:16:23.395685 saving names and links...
|
||||||
23:20:51.879786 ordering 3559 inodes using nilsimsa similarity...
|
21:16:23.395830 ordering 3559 inodes using nilsimsa similarity...
|
||||||
23:20:51.880238 nilsimsa: depth=25000, limit=255
|
21:16:23.396097 nilsimsa: depth=50000, limit=255
|
||||||
23:20:51.887597 updating name and link indices...
|
21:16:23.401042 updating name and link indices...
|
||||||
23:20:51.889207 pre-sorted index (3360 name, 2127 path lookups) [8.836ms]
|
21:16:23.403127 pre-sorted index (3360 name, 2127 path lookups) [6.936ms]
|
||||||
23:20:52.007817 3559 inodes ordered [127.9ms]
|
21:16:23.524914 3559 inodes ordered [129ms]
|
||||||
23:20:52.007903 waiting for segmenting/blockifying to finish...
|
21:16:23.525006 waiting for segmenting/blockifying to finish...
|
||||||
23:21:12.038054 saving chunks...
|
21:16:33.865023 saving chunks...
|
||||||
23:21:12.039631 saving directories...
|
21:16:33.865883 saving directories...
|
||||||
23:21:12.134903 waiting for compression to finish...
|
21:16:33.900140 waiting for compression to finish...
|
||||||
23:21:26.166560 compressed 611.8 MiB to 19.62 MiB (ratio=0.0320689)
|
21:17:10.505779 compressed 611.8 MiB to 17.44 MiB (ratio=0.0284969)
|
||||||
23:21:26.181937 filesystem created without errors [35.82s]
|
21:17:10.526171 filesystem created without errors [48.65s]
|
||||||
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
|
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
|
||||||
waiting for block compression to finish
|
waiting for block compression to finish
|
||||||
3334 dirs, 0/0 soft/hard links, 26401/26401 files, 0 other
|
3334 dirs, 0/0 soft/hard links, 26401/26401 files, 0 other
|
||||||
original size: 611.8 MiB, dedupe: 267.8 MiB (22842 files), segment: 130 MiB
|
original size: 611.8 MiB, dedupe: 267.8 MiB (22842 files), segment: 122.2 MiB
|
||||||
filesystem: 214.1 MiB in 14 blocks (10229 chunks, 3559/3559 inodes)
|
filesystem: 221.8 MiB in 4 blocks (7304 chunks, 3559/3559 inodes)
|
||||||
compressed filesystem: 14 blocks/19.62 MiB written
|
compressed filesystem: 4 blocks/17.44 MiB written
|
||||||
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏100% /
|
██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏100% /
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||||||
|
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||||||
real 0m35.876s
|
real 0m48.683s
|
||||||
user 4m15.218s
|
user 2m24.905s
|
||||||
sys 0m4.881s
|
sys 0m3.292s
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
$ ls -l perl-install-small*.*fs
|
$ ls -l perl-install-small*.*fs
|
||||||
-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 20573703 Dec 9 23:21 perl-install-small-l9.dwarfs
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-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 18282075 Dec 10 21:17 perl-install-small-l9.dwarfs
|
||||||
-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 35328512 Dec 8 14:25 perl-install-small.cromfs
|
-rw-r--r-- 1 mhx users 35328512 Dec 8 14:25 perl-install-small.cromfs
|
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It only takes 3 seconds longer to build the DwarFS file system with LZMA
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I would have added some benchmarks with the Cromfs FUSE driver, but sadly
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it crashed right upon trying to list the directory after mounting.
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$ time mkdwarfs -i install-small -o perl-install-small-lz4.dwarfs -C lz4hc:level=9 -S 12
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23:24:16.028616 scanning install-small
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23:24:16.644500 assigning directory and link inodes...
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23:24:16.771272 saved 267.8 MiB / 611.8 MiB in 22842/26401 duplicate files
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21:21:18.903505 saved 267.8 MiB / 611.8 MiB in 22842/26401 duplicate files
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23:24:17.542446 assigning device inodes...
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23:24:17.543557 building metadata...
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21:21:19.678014 building metadata...
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23:24:17.543600 building blocks...
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21:21:19.678101 building blocks...
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23:24:17.543618 saving names and links...
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23:24:17.543737 ordering 3559 inodes using nilsimsa similarity...
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23:24:17.544001 nilsimsa: depth=25000, limit=255
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23:24:17.548094 pre-sorted index (3360 name, 2127 path lookups) [4.041ms]
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21:21:19.684227 pre-sorted index (3360 name, 2127 path lookups) [5.592ms]
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23:24:17.553405 updating name and link indices...
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23:24:17.668847 3559 inodes ordered [125ms]
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21:21:19.810401 3559 inodes ordered [132ms]
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23:24:17.668936 waiting for segmenting/blockifying to finish...
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23:24:27.310633 saving chunks...
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23:24:27.314192 saving directories...
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23:24:27.367761 waiting for compression to finish...
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23:24:27.368812 compressed 611.8 MiB to 140.3 MiB (ratio=0.229247)
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21:21:27.020929 compressed 611.8 MiB to 140.7 MiB (ratio=0.230025)
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23:24:27.382266 filesystem created without errors [11.35s]
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21:21:27.036202 filesystem created without errors [8.899s]
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waiting for block compression to finish
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waiting for block compression to finish
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3334 dirs, 0/0 soft/hard links, 26401/26401 files, 0 other
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3334 dirs, 0/0 soft/hard links, 26401/26401 files, 0 other
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original size: 611.8 MiB, dedupe: 267.8 MiB (22842 files), segment: 1.541 MiB
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original size: 611.8 MiB, dedupe: 267.8 MiB (22842 files), segment: 0 B
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filesystem: 342.5 MiB in 87678 blocks (91908 chunks, 3559/3559 inodes)
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filesystem: 344 MiB in 88073 blocks (91628 chunks, 3559/3559 inodes)
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compressed filesystem: 87678 blocks/140.3 MiB written
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compressed filesystem: 88073 blocks/140.7 MiB written
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real 0m11.383s
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real 0m9.075s
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user 0m40.879s
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user 0m37.718s
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sys 0m2.497s
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It finishes in less than half the time and produces an output image
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It finishes in less than half the time and produces an output image
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that's half the size of the EROFS image.
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that's half the size of the EROFS image.
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