Add --enable-snapshot-compression flag to control snapshot compression

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What type of PR is this?

/kind feature

What this PR does / why we need it:

Adds --enable-snapshot-compression driver parameter to control whether gzip compression is applied when creating volume snapshots. Users storing already-compressed data can set this to false to skip redundant compression, significantly speeding up snapshot creation and restoration.

Changes:

• Add EnableSnapshotCompression to DriverOptions and Driver structs
• Add --enable-snapshot-compression CLI flag (default: true)
• Update CreateSnapshot to use .tar or .tar.gz based on setting
• Update copyFromSnapshot to auto-detect archive format for backward compatibility
• Add Helm chart support via controller.enableSnapshotCompression

Usage:

# Disable compression for pre-compressed data
--enable-snapshot-compression=false

# Helm values
controller:
  enableSnapshotCompression: false

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #891

Special notes for your reviewer:

• Default true preserves existing behavior
• Snapshot restoration auto-detects format (tries .tar.gz first, then .tar) ensuring backward compatibility with existing compressed snapshots
• Both Go library (TarPack/TarUnpack) and external tar command paths updated

Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?:

Add --enable-snapshot-compression flag to control whether gzip compression is performed when creating volume snapshots. Set to false to skip compression for volumes containing already-compressed data.

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Add a parameter to control whether compression is performed when creating volumesnapshots.</issue_title>
<issue_description>Is your feature request related to a problem?/Why is this needed

I stores some large compressed files with PVCs. Creating volumesnapshot would compress those files again that is very time-consuming and the compression effect is quite limited.

Describe the solution you'd like in detail

Add a driver parameter to control whether compression is performed when creating volumesnapshots. If no compression，snapshot-controller would do tar (untar) without -z when creating (restoring) a volumesnapshot.

</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes Add a parameter to control whether compression is performed when creating volumesnapshots. #998

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