macOS
brew install dwarfslocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
dwarfs のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。
インストール
brew install dwarfslocal Homebrew formula metadata
nix profile install nixpkgs#dwarfsnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/dw/dwarfs/package.nix · ソース: api.github.com
sudo zypper install dwarfsopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · dwarfs · ソース: download.opensuse.org
概要
Fast high compression read-only file system for Linux, Windows, and macOS
履歴
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
セキュリティ状態
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
リスク blue · 信頼度 中 · tool
エージェントに無人実行させる前に、このツールが平文の認証情報を読むか、リモート状態を書き込むか、成果物を公開するか、プラグインを起動するかを確認してください。
実行可能ファイル
| コマンド | 種類 | 公開範囲 | メモ |
|---|---|---|---|
dwarfsck | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル | |
dwarfsextract | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル | |
mkdwarfs | cli | グローバル実行可能ファイル |
鮮度
これらの信号は、ページ生成時期、パッケージマネージャの活動、上流リリース比較を分けて示します。バージョン遅れは、証拠 URL と比較可能なバージョンがある場合だけ警告されます。
インストールメタデータ
| パッケージキー | brew:dwarfs |
|---|---|
| バージョン | 0.15.4 |
| パッケージマネージャ | Homebrew |
| パッケージマネージャページ | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dwarfs |
| ホームページ | https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs |
| リポジトリ | https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs |
| 上流ドキュメント | https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs#readme |
| ライセンス | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| ソースアーカイブ | https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs/releases/download/v0.15.4/dwarfs-0.15.4.tar.xz |
| 最終更新 | 2026-07-08T09:44:49Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| 依存関係 | boost, brotli, flac, fmt, howard-hinnant-date, libarchive, lz4, nlohmann-json, openssl@3, parallel-hashmap, range-v3, utf8cpp, xxhash, xz, zstd |
| ビルド依存関係 | cmake, googletest, pkgconf |
| Bottle | 利用可能 (対象 arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | 未定義 |
| サービス | 宣言なし |
レジストリ情報
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | dwarfs |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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ソースデータベース一致
一致は外部パッケージマネージャインデックスから取得され、ローカルの Automic Vault パッケージリンクとは分けて表示されます。
dwarfs
nix profile install nixpkgs#dwarfsdwarfs 0.15.3-1.3
Deduplicating compressed read-only file system
sudo zypper install dwarfsdwarfs-bash-completion 0.15.3-1.3
Bash Completion for dwarfs
sudo zypper install dwarfs-bash-completiondwarfs-devel 0.15.3-1.3
DwarFS development files
sudo zypper install dwarfs-develdwarfs-zsh-completion 0.15.3-1.3
ZSH Completion for dwarfs
sudo zypper install dwarfs-zsh-completionlibdwarfs0_15_3 0.15.3-1.3
DwarFS dynamic library
sudo zypper install libdwarfs0_15_3ソース経路
このページは scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py が生成した非公開のパッケージ SQLite アーティファクトから av-web によって提供されます。
View the package source record on GitHub.