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Reisyukaku / ReiNXToolkit

Toolkit for ReiNX
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Compression for NAND dumping #9

Open Warfields opened 6 years ago

Warfields commented 6 years ago

The longest part of the NAND dump appears to be the transfer to the SD Card, Since all of the dump files are ~3.2 Gb is it possible to load it into the Switch's ram (4GB total) and then run compression on it before saving to the SD? Just by using a zip compression i was able to reduce the 30Gb dump down to 604Mb after it was transfered to my machine, this would greatly increase the speed of the NAND dump.

Reisyukaku commented 6 years ago

Compression has a lot of overhead though, so it'd slow down the dump if anything.. It would speed up file tranfer though.. it's kinda a catch 22 assuming the compression doesn't slow it down 10 fold.

Warfields commented 6 years ago

Ah, that makes sense.