> Zip with no compression is a nice contender for a container format that shouldn't be slept on

SquashFS with zstd compression is used by various container runtimes, and is popular in HPC where filesystems often have high latency. It can be mounted natively or with FUSE, and the decompression overhead is not really felt.

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ciupicri 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Wouldn't you still have a lot of syscalls?

	▲	stabbles 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, but with much lower latency. The squashfs file ensures the files are close together and you benefit from fs cache a lot.
	▲	LtdJorge an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You then use io_uring