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Re:DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system by rurban on Monday November 30, 2020 @08:59AM (#25253708)
On success, mkdwarfs needed 1 hr, and reduced 219 dirs to a size of 970 MB. Not just source files, but also the build and install object files.

1 hr is a lot, but just think how long squashfs would have needed. Totally impractical. Thanks mhx

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