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thesavant42 edited this page Jan 20, 2026 · 2 revisions

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"Layer Peeking" - verb;

To infer the filesystem of an SOCI container image by scanning only the targz headers, not decompressing the entire image (only enough to get the peek) and then severing the connection immediately.

Why?

  • By learning the file contents before hand it is easier to predict whether the container is even worth the time/space/effort to download.

GitHub link to commit:

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This commit modified fetcher.py and layerslayer.py for file stream "peeking".

fetcher-py mermaid chart

Raw Link of mermaid chart for carver

Raw link to layerslayer documentation and mermaid chart diagram

Raw link to TarParser doc

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