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I'm tempted to try using this for container images. I would imagine the savings could be pretty significant.

• pdimitar 3y ago
  If you do, you definitely should blog about it and promote it. I'm very interested in knowing the results.
• all2 3y ago
  It's a userspace only FS. Can we use that for container images?
  • 20after4 3y ago
    That was the thing I'm not sure about. Will try to find the answer.
  • 20after4 3y ago
    This seems promising: > "You need to mount the fuse drive with the option "allow_root"." https://serverfault.com/a/1085669 https://serverfault.com/a/1085669
• sonicanatidae 3y ago
  I'm curious to know, but I believe a major portion of this idea comes into play when the data is massively redundant. I typical container (say, a vhdx file) normally wouldn't apply. Did I misunderstand?
  • 20after4 3y ago
    No you didn't misunderstand, however, I do believe there would be quite a bit of redundant data in the layers of a docker image, especially when the Dockerfile hasn't been optimized and was just haphazardly constructed.
    • sonicanatidae 3y ago
      That's a reasonable assumption. I'm curious to know how that turns out if you ever feel like posting it. :) Thanks