Brandon Mitchell

Related is this old issue from Docker: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/8427

I've been treating the Layout directory as a repository, where multiple images are referenced by different tag names in the index.json, and the blobs directory is deduplicated since the names...

> > 3. Is it permitted to have a link that climbs outside the image? (E.g.: ln -s ../foo /bar). What about other pathological link targets? > > For hardlinks,...

Is there a manifest definition for using these blobs? I'm curious if it's one manifest per blob, or if you are taking them as a group.

> > Is there a manifest definition for using these blobs? I'm curious if it's one manifest per blob, or if you are taking them as a group. > >...

> In fact, we're prototyping a nix cache implementation that is also planned to be OCI-distribution compliant (read only) over at https://github.com/input-output-hk/spongix Okay, that makes sense. I was thinking you...

> Why is reproducible compression of importance? Compression is only used for transit and storage and can be turned into the real (and reproducible!) data at any point. Unfortunately the...

Other layer types don't handle reproducibility. You can have two different CAS entries for effectively the same content, but with different timestamps, compression artifacts, etc.

@blaggacao > I want to get my hands dirty, next. Where should I start? smile -- maybe to clear up the clouds, we should have a quick call, even? We've...

> Maybe we can have a new digest algo like `sha256+gunzip` > - https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/issues/925 For reference, here's where distribution-spec is looking to solve it with content encoding headers, which feels...