pkg.soopen package index

brew / rang 3504

Installer dwarfs avec Homebrew, Nix, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de dwarfs pour les workflows d'agents IA.

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install dwarfs

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#dwarfs

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/dw/dwarfs/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install dwarfs

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · dwarfs · Source: download.opensuse.org

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Fast high compression read-only file system for Linux, Windows, and macOS

Commandes et alias

  • dwarfsck
  • dwarfsextract
  • mkdwarfs

historique

Historique du projet et usages

DwarFS is a high-compression read-only filesystem for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. Its README frames it as a mountable archive optimized for fast random reads and strong space savings on redundant data.

Historique du projet

Marcus Holland-Moritz writes in the README that he started working on DwarFS in 2013 because several hundred Perl installations were consuming about 30 GB, and existing compressed filesystems either did not compress well enough or were too slow and unstable for his use case.

The public GitHub repository was created in November 2020, and GitHub release metadata records release-0.1.0 the same month. By 2026, the project had grown into a multi-platform filesystem with mkdwarfs for image creation, dwarfs for mounting, dwarfsextract for extraction, and dwarfsck for inspection and checksums.

The README is unusually benchmark-heavy: it compares DwarFS with tar/gzip, 7-Zip, SquashFS, lrzip, zpaq, wimlib, Cromfs, EROFS, and fuse-archive across redundant Perl installations, CI artifacts, game audio assets, and other datasets.

Historique d'adoption

DwarFS adoption is strongest among users with highly redundant trees: many software builds, versioned runtimes, large asset collections, backups, and archives where mountable access matters. The README includes package-maintainer notes, release-download badges, a Homebrew installs badge, a Repology packaging badge, related projects, and notable users.

The input metadata lists Homebrew, Nix, and zypper packages. That package-manager footprint is important because DwarFS is a native filesystem/archive tool with FUSE and compression-library concerns; reproducible distribution builds make it easier to deploy than ad hoc source builds.

Modes d'utilisation

The basic workflow is mkdwarfs -i /path/to/input/dir -o image.dwarfs, then dwarfs image.dwarfs /path/to/mountpoint to mount it. Users can extract with dwarfsextract and inspect or checksum images with dwarfsck.

DwarFS is read-only when mounted, so it is used more like a compressed, mountable artifact store than a writable filesystem. Its tuning knobs cover compression level, block size, categorization, worker counts, memory limits, duplicate segment search, and related compression-performance tradeoffs.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

DwarFS is package-nerd significant because it is a modern alternative in a class usually dominated by SquashFS, tarballs, zip files, and container/image formats. It is especially interesting when the package is not just a compressor but a filesystem image format plus FUSE driver plus inspection/extraction tools.

It also illustrates why package managers matter for systems tools: users need compatible FUSE support, compression libraries, platform-specific builds, and command-line utilities installed together.

Chronologie

  • 2013: Work on DwarFS begins, according to the README history section.
  • 2020: The public GitHub repository is created and release-0.1.0 is published.
  • 2026: GitHub release metadata records v0.15.3.

Related projects

  • The README compares DwarFS with SquashFS, Cromfs, EROFS, lrzip, zpaq, zpaqfranz, wimlib, fuse-archive, tar/gzip, and 7-Zip.
  • Related runtime/package-image projects named by the README include PELF and uruntime, which mention DwarFS support.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Classificateur de risque

risque blue · confiance moyen · tool

Pourquoi

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signaux

  • text:compress

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucune métadonnée de bottle Homebrew n’a été enregistrée.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
dwarfsckexécutableexécutable indexéDécouvert depuis l'index local des exécutables.
dwarfsextractexécutableexécutable indexéDécouvert depuis l'index local des exécutables.
mkdwarfsexécutableexécutable indexéDécouvert depuis l'index local des exécutables.

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-08-03
version du gestionnaire0.15.6
gestionnaire mis à jour2026-07-26
données localesinconnu
amontnon disponible
dernière version détectéenon détecté
  • OKAucun avertissement de fraîcheur n'a été généré.

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:dwarfs
Version0.15.6
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page d'accueilhttps://github.com/mhx/dwarfs
Dépôthttps://github.com/mhx/dwarfs
Dernière mise à jour2026-07-26T17:46:02Z
Pulseupdated
Bouteillenon enregistré
Serviceaucun déclaré

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

dwarfs

nix profile install nixpkgs#dwarfs
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Dwarfs
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dw/dwarfs/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
zypper95%

dwarfs 0.15.5-1.2

Deduplicating compressed read-only file system

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

sudo zypper install dwarfs
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: dwarfs
  • 14 Dépendances
  • 3 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Dwarfs
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: dwarfs from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

dwarfs-bash-completion 0.15.5-1.2

Bash Completion for dwarfs

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

sudo zypper install dwarfs-bash-completion
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: dwarfs
  • 2 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Dwarfs
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: dwarfs-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

dwarfs-devel 0.15.5-1.2

DwarFS development files

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

sudo zypper install dwarfs-devel
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: dwarfs
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 2 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Dwarfs
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: dwarfs-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

dwarfs-zsh-completion 0.15.5-1.2

ZSH Completion for dwarfs

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

sudo zypper install dwarfs-zsh-completion
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: dwarfs
  • 2 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Dwarfs
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: dwarfs-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libdwarfs0_15_5 0.15.5-1.2

DwarFS dynamic library

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

sudo zypper install libdwarfs0_15_5
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: dwarfs
  • 21 Dépendances
  • 8 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Dwarfs
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libdwarfs0_15_5 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Sources utilisées

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • pkg.so package database
  • pkgdb category and tag curation