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This is also how FreeBSD Update and Portsnap store files. This technique has been around for a long time.

• patrickmn 10y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage
  • cperciva 10y ago
    Right. I'm not a fan of the terminology though; I prefer hash-addressed storage to avoid the potential confusion with associative memory.