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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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archiving compression cpp deduplication dwarfs filesystem flac freebsd fuse fuse-filesystem linux lrzip lzma macfuse macos squashfs windows winfsp zpaq zstd

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