reflinkable rpms
a project by lnussel
Updated over 2 years ago. 2 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Project Description

RPMs with reflinkable content that leverage CoW filesystem features could help to minimize disk writes and space usage, reduce cpu cycles and download bandwidth for updates.

Goal for this Hackweek

Develop some simple, standalone prototype that can install reflinkable payload. Provide a tool that converts a subset of a repo to reflinkable content.

Resources

https://lnussel.github.io/2020/07/07/rpm-delta-updates/

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1470

Join this project

Looking for hackers with the skills:

rpm btrfs

This project is part of:

Hack Week 21

Activity

  • over 2 years ago: aplanas liked this project.
  • over 2 years ago: dsterba liked this project.
  • over 2 years ago: lnussel added keyword "rpm" to this project.
  • over 2 years ago: lnussel added keyword "btrfs" to this project.
  • over 2 years ago: lnussel started this project.
  • over 2 years ago: lnussel originated this project.


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