srep VS dwarfs

I typically don't make use of standard archive formats these days for my own file storage. If I want just pure maximum compression, I'll often use a long-range matcher like FreeArc's srep [1] or lrzip [2] combined with either fast-lzma2 [3] using a p7zip fork [4] for multithreading or use mcm [5] or zpaq.

However, my truly preferred way is using dwarfs [6], which features some really good deduplication and (by default) zstd compression while being mountable. Most of my files are highly compressed and easily accessible without needing to full decompress them. Admittedly, I don't make use of PAR2 or anything of the sort, but I could just do that the traditional way if I so wished.

[1]: https://github.com/Phantop/srep

https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs/blob/main/doc/mkdwarfs.md#nils...

after downloading to unpack u'll need https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs just copy paste what is written under "building" in the terminal

on a fresh install all you need is dwarfs https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs and libopenal1

The closest thing I could find is a read-only FS called DwarFS (https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs) but I don't know if it's the same thing you were using.

Consider https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs if your use case supports read only or overlayfs-like read-only filesystems.