EROFS, What Are We Doing Now For Containers?

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Covers EROFS, the Linux read-only filesystem upstreamed in Linux 4.19, and how it’s being extended for container workloads. Describes new features under development to meet container use cases that need high-performance, read-only storage and reduced space overhead, with concrete focus on adapting EROFS (originally for embedded devices) for containers.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:10EROFS brief introduction
3. 10:34RAFS v6 format inside
4. 18:10Nydus Architecture
5. 21:22Nydus Key Features
6. 22:54Image Data Deduplication
7. 27:23Data Integrity and Confidentia
8. 28:42How to use Nydus Image
9. 30:11Container start benchmark
10. 31:12Future work

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