🗺 Roadmap

Note that items marked with [GSoC] are also intended for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects.

Linux Kernel

• EROFS page cache sharing across different filesystems;

• Preliminary EROFS Rust in-kernel adaption (EXPERIMENTAL, program for students);

Userspace tools (erofs-utils)

• Stabilize liberofs APIs;

• Virtual machine template feature support (memory + disk snapshots can be incrementally packed into multi-blob EROFS images);

• [GSoC] Multi-threaded decompression;

• Rebuild improvements (including incremental updates [1]).

Containers

• (containerd) EROFS Support and Improvements;

• (Kata Containers) EROFS Snapshotter Support in Kata;

• (gVisor) EROFS Snapshotter Support.

Miscellaneous items

• [GSoC] Porting EROFS to BSD Kernels.