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Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems


Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs

Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Open-source developer Matteo Croce is leading the Debcow effort to optimize deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems using reflinks. There are benchmarks shown with the GitHub repository for this CoW optimization for Debian packages.

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