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mmh0000

Filesystem/file level dedupe is for suckers. =D

If the greatest filesystem in the world were a living being, it would be our God. That filesystem, of course, is ZFS.

Handles this correctly:

https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/

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I was talking about block level dedupe.

I thought you might be.

I just wanted to mention ZFS.

Have I mentioned how great ZFS is yet?

ZFS is great! However, it's too complicated for most Linux server use cases (especially with just one block device attached); it's not the default (root filesystem); and it's not supported for at least one major enterprise Linux distro family.

It's not as good as ed: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

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