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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by mprovost on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:46PM (#21531578)
But if they're using a deduplicating storage backend, they can shrink down the actual storage on disk across all customers to something quite reasonable.
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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by dharmab on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:48PM (#21532009)
That only works if Dockerfiles are layered in such a way to maximize caching (many are not and naively pack many changes into a single layer). Yes there are block-level dedupes but that's a transparent feature of most storage systems and not a competitive distinguisher of Hub vs ECR/ACR/Quay.
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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by grosswait on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:41PM (#21532564)
I believe the person you replied to was commenting on the advantages to Docker, not the customer, and how (blocklevel is what I inferred) dedupe makes the quantity digestible to Docker's pocketbook.
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