Nydus Lazy-Loading Image Configuration and Practice
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Statistics show that most files inside a container are never used. Based on this characteristic, Nydus defines a custom filesystem in the Rafs format, enabling on-demand loading of image files to solve the slow startup and storage consumption caused by large images. In AI scenarios, whether for inference or training, images often start at several GB, or even tens of GB, so Nydus is very well suited.