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.
Wow – that was a VERY long writeup. I feel like it could have been covered in 2 paragraphs at most. (It WAS an interesting implementation detail of Docker layers.)
Wow – that was a VERY long writeup. I feel like it could have been covered in 2 paragraphs at most. (It WAS an interesting implementation detail of Docker layers.)
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ahah fair enough! I should have probably had a TLDR; at the top and then a disclaimer “keep reading ONLY if you are really really bored!”
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Honestly, that would have been hilarious! 😆
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