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Re:CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem by xyzzy_plugh on Friday March 22, 2019 @03:48PM (#19466204)
Well, for one, it's not obviously useful in traditional applications:

> This makes images a few percent larger (due to more gzip headers and loss of compression context between files), but it's plenty acceptable.

Compressing an entire image is generally great. Compressing all of the individual files in an image, is generally not great.

Re:CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem by bradfitz on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:34PM (#19467194)
Maybe not great, but like I said: acceptable.

About 7.6% bigger: https://github.com/golang/build/commit/8a5a4d227f08eb1d889fa...

Re:CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem by koolba on Saturday March 23, 2019 @10:39AM (#19470622)
That's what I meant by "brilliantly simple"; namely having something like this work with existing systems while imposing a marginal overhead.