“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”

Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by pjc50 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:21AM (#27013304)

I bet someone will invent shared content for Docker containers in the next few years as a disk-saving measure.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by codegladiator on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:25AM (#27013333)

That's called volume mounts and/or base images ?

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by regularfry on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:06AM (#27013565)

If I do an `apt-get install` of the same packages in different containers, with anything different at all before it in the Dockerfiles, there's no way to share a common layer that includes the package contents between those images.

You could volume mount /usr and chunks of /var to help, but I'm not sure that would be sane.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by radicalbyte on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:46AM (#27013747)

There are storage systems which do this, de-dupe on disk level.

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