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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by harshdoesdev on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:08PM (#47808808)
nice! for most local workloads, it is actually sufficient. so, do you ship a complete disk snapshot of the machines?
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Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable vi... by fqiao on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:23PM (#47808983)
Yes. files on the disks are kept across stop and restart. We also have a pack command to compress the machine as a single file so that it can shipped and rehydrated elsewhere
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