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Re:Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents... by naikrovek on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:24PM (#38922295)
That seems ripe for optimization, if true, especially since those layers are all immutable.
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Re:Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents... by yrro on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @05:39AM (#38924529)
A container runtime could optimize for speed by unpacking all those layers one by one into a single lower directory for the container to use; but at the cost of using lots of disk space, since those layers would no longer be shared between different containers.
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