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I used to use fuse and overlayfs for this, I’m not sure it still works well as I’m not a build engineer and I did it for myself.

Its a lot faster in my case (little over 3TiB for latest revision only).




There’s a service called p4vfs [0] which does this for p4. The problem we had with this at the time was that unfortunately our build tool scanned everything (which was slow in and of itself) but that caused p4vfs to pull the file anyway. So it didn’t actually help.

[0] https://help.perforce.com/helix-core/server-apps/p4vfs/curre...




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