dwarfs
brew install dwarfs
v0.15.3
GPL-3.0-or-later
Fast high compression read-only file system for Linux, Windows, and macOS
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Runtime dependencies
boost
brotli
flac
fmt
howard-hinnant-date
libarchive
lz4
nlohmann-json
openssl@3
parallel-hashmap
range-v3
utf8cpp
xxhash
xz
zstd
Build dependencies
GitHub topics
archiving
compression
cpp
deduplication
dwarfs
filesystem
flac
freebsd
fuse
fuse-filesystem
linux
lrzip
lzma
macfuse
macos
squashfs
windows
winfsp
zpaq
zstd
Links
- https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs
- GitHub: mhx/dwarfs
- Brew formula source: Formula/d/dwarfs.rb
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