[Discuss] Deduplication

[worley at alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)]

Kinda hilarious to see:

discuss-request at driftwood.blu.org writes:
> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. Re: Grub, EFI, Partitioning? (David Rosenstrauch)
>    2. Deduplication (Kent Borg)
>    3. Re: Deduplication (Rich Pieri)
>    4. Re: Deduplication (Rich Pieri)
>    5. Re: Deduplication (Dan Ritter)

It looks like duperemove works only on some filesystems because it makes
all the files reflink-ed, they still have separate inodes but share the
data extents as long as you don't modify any of them.  But rdfind can
create hardlinks or symlinks, which are supported by all filesystems.

Dale