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Add basic file format documentation.

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Reduce memory threshold for switching to Similarity based Deduplication.
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Moinak Ghosh 2013-08-18 20:11:20 +05:30
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###########################################################################################################
# Pcompress File Format. #
###########################################################################################################
Broadly a compressed file consists of a header followed by one or more metadata members which is turn is
followed by one or more compressed chunk data members.
Apart from a standard chunk header, each compressed chunk has an internal format with various metadata
headers of the compression and deduplication algorithms used.
===========================================
File Header
===========================================
8 Bytes - Compression algorithm name
2 Bytes - File format version
2 Bytes - Flags
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | `- Simple buffer-level Deduplication on/off
'-------' | | | `----- Fixed Block Deduplication on/off
| | | | Both bits set indicate Global Deduplication.
| | | |
| | | `--------- Solid archive. Entire file compressed in a
| | | single buffer.
| | |
| | `----------------- AES Crypto
| `--------------------- Salsa20 Crypto
|
`------------------------------------- Indicate which data verification checksum
was used.
8 Bytes - Indicated per-thread buffer size
4 Bytes - Compression level
If Encryption Used
-------------------------------------------
4 Bytes - Salt Length
X Bytes - Actual Salt bytes
X Bytes - Nonce: 8 Bytes for AES and 24 Bytes for Salsa20
4 Bytes - Key Length
===========================================
Header Checksum
===========================================
X Bytes - 4 Byte CRC32 without encryption
Header HMAC if encryption enabled. Size of HMAC depends on selected data verification hash.
===========================================
Chunk Header
Each chunk is a single compressed buffer
===========================================
8 Bytes - Compressed Length
X Bytes - Chunk data verification hash (upto 64 bytes) of the original uncompressed and unencrypted
data.
X Bytes - Chunk Header CRC32 for normal compression
Full chunk HMAC, including header, when encrypting. Computation is in this order:
Compression -> Encryption -> HMAC.
1 Byte - Chunk Flags
* * * * * * * *
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
| | | | | |
| '-----' | | `- 0 - Uncompressed
| | | | 1 - Compressed
| | | |
| | | `---- 1 - Chunk was Deduped
| | `------- 1 - Chunk was pre-compressed
| |
| | 1 - Bzip2 (Adaptive Mode)
| `---------------- 2 - Lzma (Adaptive Mode)
| 3 - PPMD (Adaptive Mode)
|
`---------------------- 1 - Chunk size flag (if original chunk is of variable length)
X Bytes - Compressed chunk data
Original uncompressed chunk size can be less than indicated per-thread buffer size. In that
case chunk size bit is set in the flags (as above) and size value is appended after the
compressed chunk data.
-------------------------------------------
8 Bytes - Original uncompressed chunk size
===========================================
File Trailer
===========================================
8 Bytes - Zero bytes indicating zero compressed length
and end of file.

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*memreqd = MEM_REQD(*hash_slots, *hash_entry_size);
/*
* If memory required is more than twice the indicated memory limit then
* If memory required is more than the indicated memory limit then
* we switch to Segmented Similarity based dedupe.
*/
if (*memreqd > (memlimit * 2) && cfg->dedupe_mode == MODE_SIMPLE &&
if (*memreqd > memlimit && cfg->dedupe_mode == MODE_SIMPLE &&
*pct_interval == 0 && tmppath != NULL) {
*pct_interval = DEFAULT_PCT_INTERVAL;
set_user = 1;