DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system
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HN comment order> I started working on DwarFS in 2013 and my main use case and major motivation was that I had several hundred different versions of Perl that were taking up something around 30 gigabytes of disk space, and I was unwilling to spend more than 10% of my hard drive keeping them around for when I happened to need them. It fills me with joy that someone has been coding a fs for 7 years due to perl installs taking…
Favorite part: “I had several hundred different versions of Perl that were taking up something around 30 gigabytes of disk space”. That’s a lot of Perl.
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-29 | DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file systemFirst breakout · Best thread | daantje | 280 | 111 |
| 2022-07-24 | DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system | metadat | 166 | 64 |
| 2024-04-12 | DwarFS – Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only File SystemLatest 20+ point return | pyinstallwoes | 211 | 81 |