containerd 2.3 has support for erofs which does a direct import of the layer. It can even convert the tar based layers to erofs, faster than extracting the tar

containerd 2.3 has support for erofs which does a direct import of the layer. It can even convert the tar based layers to erofs, faster than extracting the tar normally. Also looking at block-based content store so that blocks can be deduped across images.