Wombat Logical Image File Structure

[pjrinaldi]

Maybe i should just go with a simple lz4 compression of the image and then just stick my stuff at the end after it's done, and then it would be compatible with lz4 tools as well as my tools and might simplify the formatting, i can put my header at the end and just check it out.

[pjrinaldi]

went with zstd compatible. implemented for imager, will implement logical at some point as tar.zst

[pjrinaldi]

Better idea for logical image is to simply make a file with a header, and then for each file, there is a file entry header such as FILE or something like it. Then i can simply put the metadata and the hash into a skippable frame, with some sort of separator for each metadata item and then each file is zstd compressed and then the next file starts with the file entry header. metadata can include path, filename, created, accessed, modified, hash, type, category.