Merge tag 'erofs-for-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs
Pull erofs (and fscache) updates from Gao Xiang: "After working on it on the mailing list for more than half a year, we finally form 'erofs over fscache' feature into shape. Hopefully it could bring more possibility to the communities. The story mainly started from a new project what we called "RAFS v6" [1] for Nydus image service almost a year ago, which enhances EROFS to be a new form of one bootstrap (which includes metadata representing the whole fs tree) + several data-deduplicated content addressable blobs (actually treated as multiple devices). Each blob can represent one container image layer but not quite exactly since all new data can be fully existed in the previous blobs so no need to introduce another new blob. It is actually not a new idea (at least on my side it's much like a simpilied casync [2] for now) and has many benefits over per-file blobs or some other exist ways ...
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