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, i did not know about the history of whiteouts and PAX and thanks for sharing so much more in your comment! Now I am tempted to go back and do some edits and make the article even bigger… should I refrain? :P
Wow, i did not know about the history of whiteouts and PAX and thanks for sharing so much more in your comment! Now I am tempted to go back and do some edits and make the article even bigger… should I refrain? :P
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