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So dropbox always deduped data at it’s backend without any such user facing change. How is this better than that?
by nitinagg 5y ago
So dropbox always deduped data at it’s backend without any such user facing change. How is this better than that?
- sanderjd 5y agoThis is unrelated to that. It isn't about de-duping data, it's about symbolic links ("shortcuts") vs. hard links ("multi-parenting"). You can still make copies of files as usual, and the content can be de-duped (or not) transparently to users.