google/crfs
CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2721
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 693
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1405 stars · 67 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
CRFS is a read-only FUSE filesystem that mounts container images directly from a container registry without pulling them locally first. It introduces the Stargz (seekable tar.gz) format, which indexes gzip streams so individual files can be read on demand over the network.
Use cases
- mount container images from a registry without pulling them
- speed up container startup on cold nodes
- read individual files from a remote container image lazily
- avoid pre-pulling large containers in CI build VMs
- convert tar.gz images to the seekable Stargz format
When to choose
- container image pull time dominates startup latency
- you want on-demand reads of image layers over a fast internal network
- you can build images in the Stargz format and mount them on Linux with FUSE
When to avoid
- you need a writable container filesystem
- you're not on Linux or lack FUSE support
- you need broad ecosystem support - the project is in maintenance mode and alternatives like containerd stargz-snapshotter are more active
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
file-system container-runtime networking cloud-computing developer-tools infrastructure-as-code go cli fuse stargz container-registry lazy-pulling read-only-filesystem docker-images containers linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/google/crfs · fetched 2026-08-28 · b5ba6c60c2a8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| google/crfs | main | 10 |
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