diff --git a/Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV2.swift b/Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV2.swift
index f306ba3..f35a1a8 100644
--- a/Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV2.swift
+++ b/Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV2.swift
@@ -210,10 +210,19 @@ class DiskV2: Disk {
       // If the local layer cache is used, only write chunks that differ
       // since the base disk can contain anything at any position
       if let rdisk = rdisk {
-        // F_PUNCHHOLE requires the holes to be aligned to file system block boundaries
-        let isHoleAligned = (offset % fsBlockSize) == 0 && (UInt64(chunk.count) % fsBlockSize) == 0
+        try rdisk.seek(toOffset: offset)
+        let actualContentsOnDisk = try rdisk.read(upToCount: chunk.count)
 
-        if isHoleAligned && chunk == zeroChunk {
+        if actualContentsOnDisk == chunk {
+          offset += UInt64(chunk.count)
+
+          continue
+        }
+
+        // F_PUNCHHOLE requires the holes to be aligned to file system block boundaries
+        let isAlignedForWholePunching = (offset % fsBlockSize) == 0 && (UInt64(chunk.count) % fsBlockSize) == 0
+
+        if chunk == zeroChunk {
           var arg = fpunchhole_t(fp_flags: 0, reserved: 0, fp_offset: off_t(offset), fp_length: off_t(chunk.count))
 
           if fcntl(disk.fileDescriptor, F_PUNCHHOLE, &arg) == -1 {
@@ -222,13 +231,8 @@ class DiskV2: Disk {
             throw RuntimeError.PullFailed("failed to punch hole: \(details)")
           }
         } else {
-          try rdisk.seek(toOffset: offset)
-          let actualContentsOnDisk = try rdisk.read(upToCount: chunk.count)
-
-          if chunk != actualContentsOnDisk {
-            try disk.seek(toOffset: offset)
-            disk.write(chunk)
-          }
+          try disk.seek(toOffset: offset)
+          disk.write(chunk)
         }
 
         offset += UInt64(chunk.count)