How Docker and OCI image layers represent filesystem changes, why deleting a file needs special whiteout entries, and what happens if you create a file called .wh.foo.
Hm, good writeup. I feel like “diff of a filesystem” is a wheel that’s been reinvented enough times we should have an off the shelf solution for it by now…
Hm, good writeup. I feel like “diff of a filesystem” is a wheel that’s been reinvented enough times we should have an off the shelf solution for it by now…
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Indeed, I was more interested in the overall design choices for this one. Looks like they went for the simplest yet effective enough combo!
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