[HN Gopher] DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system ___________________________________________________________________ DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system Author : metadat Score : 63 points Date : 2022-07-24 18:33 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | dumbfounder wrote: | 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. | vardump wrote: | Pretty amazing fs! | | Shame that it can't be used much commercially in many cases due | to GPLv3 license. This could improve so many embedded systems | currently using SquashFS. | synergy20 wrote: | it's not in standard linux kernel(unlike squashfs) plus it is | less field tested comparing to squashfs, more importantly I too | avoid GPLv3 in any commercial product. Anything GPLv3 will be | off my check-out list for anything immediately because I | honestly don't know what GPLv3 really means to me. I use GPLv2 | cautiously wherever it fits as I feel at least I know what it | implies. | rmatt2000 wrote: | A few years ago, I designed an incredibly fast write-only file | system, but for some reason couldn't leverage it into a | commercial product that anyone was willing to buy. | osigurdson wrote: | I didn't dig into the details, but unless DwarfFS is a joke, I | assume they mean the system supports create, read and delete | operations. | notamy wrote: | https://devnull-as-a-service.com/ (: | gabagool wrote: | http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ | | > The Super Simple Storage Service (S4) is a new innovation in | cloud storage. Our advanced write-only storage provides the | highest security, lowest cost, and simplest management | available. | metadat wrote: | "DwarFS compression is an order of magnitude better than SquashFS | compression, it's 6 times faster to build the file system, it's | typically faster to access files on DwarFS and it uses less CPU | resources." | | Credit and thanks to coldblues for alerting me about this! | | https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32212870 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-24 23:00 UTC)