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		vbezhenar on Jan 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer c... What's the reason docker uses tar archives instead of ordinary directories for layer contents? This tool is great but it fixes something that should not exist in the first place.

cachvico on Jan 8, 2024 [–]

So images are serialized and able to be transmitted over a network.

When an image is used (or "run"), it becomes a container, which makes it behave (to the client) like ordinary files & directories.

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