That depends on the block size. If you're using 40MB blocks, for example, then seek costs are not going to dominate, and you can afford to stitch together a cou

That depends on the block size. If you're using 40MB blocks, for example, then seek costs are not going to dominate, and you can afford to stitch together a couple of deduped blocks. Where you're going to find duplicated files that are large enough that blocks so large make sense is another question.