Hi Giuseppe, > The current OCI format, with some tweaks like (e)stargz or zstd:chunked, > already make its content addressable and a client can retrieve only the > subset of the files that are needed. At the same time we maintain the > simplicity of a tarball and it won't break existing clients.
Yes, I believe backward compatibility is very important. That's why we have another design called foci (fast oci). It realize a virtual block device from gzip image blobs. See the following link for details if interested. https://github.com/containerd/accelerated-container-image/blob/main/docs/FASTOCI.md -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
