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Offline is a completely different term when speaking about filesystems. Offline means that the filesystem needs to be unmounted before an operation can proceed
by antongribok 9y ago
Offline is a completely different term when speaking about filesystems. Offline means that the filesystem needs to be unmounted before an operation can proceed.
For example some filesystems can be grown online, but can shrink only offline.
- Dylan16807 9y agoThe specific term "offline deduplication" does not mean you unmount the filesystem. Perhaps it's a bad term, but it exists.