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Fix handling of some options.

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Update README with additional option details.
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Moinak Ghosh 2014-01-03 22:51:02 +05:30
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@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ Advanced usage
as opposed to automatic settings. If advanced options are used then auto-setting
of parameters get disabled. The various advanced options are discussed below.
Chunk-level Deduplication
-------------------------
Attempt Polynomial fingerprinting based deduplication on a per-chunk basis:
pcompress -D ...
@ -285,36 +287,12 @@ Advanced usage
effect greater final compression ratio at the cost of
higher processing overhead.
-L Enable LZP pre-compression. This improves compression ratio of all
algorithms with some extra CPU and very low RAM overhead. Using
delta encoding in conjunction with this may not always be beneficial.
However Adaptive Delta Encoding is beneficial along with this.
-P Enable Adaptive Delta Encoding. It can improve compresion ratio further
for data containing tables of numerical values especially if those are
in an arithmetic series. In this implementation basic Delta Encoding is
combined with Run-Length encoding and Matrix transpose
NOTE - Both -L and -P can be used together to give maximum benefit on most
datasets.
-F Perform Fixed Block Deduplication. This is faster than fingerprinting
based content-aware deduplication in some cases. However this is mostly
usable for disk dumps especially virtual machine images. This generally
gives lower dedupe ratio than content-aware dedupe (-D) and does not
support delta compression.
-B <0..5>
Specify an average Dedupe block size. 0 - 2K, 1 - 4K, 2 - 8K ... 5 - 64K.
Default deduplication block size is 4KB for Global Deduplication and 2KB
otherwise.
-B 0
This uses blocks as small as 2KB for deduplication. This option can be
used for datasets of a few GBs to a few hundred TBs in size depending on
available RAM.
-M Display memory allocator statistics.
-C Display compression statistics.
Global Deduplication
--------------------
-G This flag enables Global Deduplication. This makes pcompress maintain an
@ -351,6 +329,38 @@ Advanced usage
In pipe mode Global Deduplication always uses a segmented similarity based
index. It allows efficient network transfer of large data.
-B <0..5>
Specify an average Dedupe block size. 0 - 2K, 1 - 4K, 2 - 8K ... 5 - 64K.
Default deduplication block size is 4KB for Global Deduplication and 2KB
otherwise.
-B 0
This uses blocks as small as 2KB for deduplication. This option can be
used for datasets of a few GBs to a few hundred TBs in size depending on
available RAM.
-L Enable LZP pre-compression. This improves compression ratio of all
algorithms with some extra CPU and very low RAM overhead. Using
delta encoding in conjunction with this may not always be beneficial.
However Adaptive Delta Encoding is beneficial along with this.
-P Enable Adaptive Delta Encoding. It can improve compresion ratio further
for data containing tables of numerical values especially if those are
in an arithmetic series. In this implementation basic Delta Encoding is
combined with Run-Length encoding and Matrix transpose
NOTE - Both -L and -P can be used together to give maximum benefit on most
datasets.
-x Perform Dispack Encoding. This is useful to translate x86 call and jmp
relative offsets to absolute values which compress better. The given
chunk is split into 32KB blocks and some heuristics are used per block
to identify whether it represents x86 instruction stream or not. This
works only when archiving.
-j Enable PackJPG processing for Jpeg files. This works only when archiving.
-M Display memory allocator statistics.
-C Display compression statistics.
Environment Variables
=====================

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@ -2832,7 +2832,7 @@ init_pc_context(pc_ctx_t *pctx, int argc, char *argv[])
ff.enable_packjpg = 0;
pthread_mutex_lock(&opt_parse);
while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "dc:s:l:pt:MCDGEe:w:LPS:B:Fk:avmK")) != -1) {
while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "dc:s:l:pt:MCDGEe:w:LPS:B:Fk:avmKjx")) != -1) {
int ovr;
int64_t chunksize;