containerd/stargz-snapshotter
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Fast container image distribution plugin with lazy pulling
11 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2022-01-06 · latest 2025-11-07
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Just curious, was something like https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter considered/evaluated before designing your own lazily-loaded container FS and if so, any pros/cons for the same?
comment by darthShadow · 2025-11-07 · in We built a cloud GPU notebook that boots in seconds -
…plugins: Nydus, e Stargz, SOCI: Seekable OCI, fuse-overlayfs; containerd/stargz-snapshotter: https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter containerd/nerdctl//docs/nydus.md: https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/blob/main/docs/nydus.m...…
comment by westurner · 2025-09-17 · in How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch -
Or pax. https://linux.die.net/man/1/pax Or eStargz. https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter Or Nydus RAFS. https://github.com/dragonflyoss/nydus Links for your mentioned zpaq and dwarFS https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html…
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-09 · in Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives -
…they're used by the host, and it tries to use heuristics to put startup data in the initial blob. https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter
comment by nurple · 2024-04-29 · in Did we lose our way in making efficient software? -
…where it only pulls chunks as needed, but it would probably require wasm platform changes. [0] https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter
comment by nurple · 2024-04-13 · in Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023) -
…pulling is already supported by a lot of container runtimes, most notably containerd with estargz https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter/blob/main/d...
comment by badLiveware · 2022-08-01 · in Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes? -
To make OCI images start faster, use stargz. See the image here: https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter It's a lazy file system for images.
comment by adamgordonbell · 2022-02-20 · in How to optimize the security, size and build speed of Docker images -
…for container images. There’s this option for OCI containers which I don’t pretend to understand: https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter It is used by containerd and nerdctl. You do have to build the image with it. Images work in…
comment by jarpineh · 2022-02-01 · in Speeding up LXC container pull by up to 3x -
…and therefore can often start up large images very fast. Take a look at the startup graph here: https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter
comment by adamgordonbell · 2022-01-06 · in Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters