Deduplicating bundled content in snaps
Registered by
Daniel Holbach
A snappy package contains all its dependencies including all shared libraries.
To avoid storing and downloading identical files multiple times we will use the file hash information we have.
On the FS side we can simply hardlink identical files to a place like /apps/.data/ (with multiple subdirs).
On the download side we need to get the hashes.yaml from the store first and evaluate this and then only download the files we do not already have. For this the easiest option is to to have a /apps/.data/ directory (probably with a bunch of subdirs so that its not one huge directory).
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Alexander Sack
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Michael Vogt
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- Accepted for wily
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Daniel Holbach
Whiteboard
(?)
