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    • Mike Hibler's avatar
      Resurrect/enhance delta image code. Another multi-day "one hour hack"! · 49d2f488
      Mike Hibler authored
      Resurrect: get the basic signature matching code working again.
      
      Enhance: add -U option to have imagezip update (or create) the
      signature file. Previously, the signature file was created off-line
      on boss with the imagehash command (that would be Mike's "imagehash"
      (/usr/testbed/bin/imagehash) and not Leigh's "imagehash"
      (/usr/testbed/sbin/imagehash)). Creating it as we create the image
      makes a lot of sense...except for how we do it. We actually read and
      create the hashes as a separate pass before we re-read, compress, and
      create the image--so we read the disk twice. [This is primarily because we
      are mooching off of the existing hash checking code (-H option). Doing
      this right will require re-writing The Big Loop which makes a single
      pass through the data, simultaneously dealing with disk IO, allocated
      ranges, and compression blocks all of which have different size/alignment
      criteria. But I digress...] Anyway, reading the disk data twice sucks,
      but at least it is on the client and not on boss. The take away is:
      don't create your images on pc600s.
      
      Note that -U will always create a signature file for the complete disk
      or partition even when you are creating a delta image (i.e., when combined
      with -H).
      
      Enhance: add "-P <pct>" option, used with -H, which tells imagezip that if
      a resulting delta image would be over <pct> percent the size (where size
      is number of uncompressed sectors in the image) of a full image, then just
      create a full image instead. So "-P 50" says if it would be over half the
      size, "-P 200" says if it was over twice the size, etc. If you always want
      a delta image to be produced, use -H without -P. If you always want a full
      image, don't use -H.
      
      This is part 2 of supporting images. Part 1 is the DB and user interface
      changes that Leigh is working on. Part 3 is next up and involves modifying
      the image creation MFS to download and use signatures along with the
      new imagezip when creating images. Stay tuned.
      49d2f488
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