[Discuss] Deduplication

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 9/5/24 18:53, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> 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.

And only something like a backup, something that gets files written to 
it but files don't otherwise change, is the result effectively the same.


-kb