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> You can get a similar effect on top of any file system that supports hard links with rdfind ( https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/ https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/ ) -- b
by someplaceguy 3y ago
> You can get a similar effect on top of any file system that supports hard links with rdfind ( https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/ https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/ ) -- but it's pretty slow.
It's a similar effect only if you don't modify the files, I think.
If you "clone" a file with a hard link and you modify the contents of one copy, the other copy would also be equally modified.
As far as I understand this wouldn't happen with this type of block cloning: each copy of the file would be completely separate, except that they may (transparently) share data blocks on disk.