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Finally! This is exactly what I want for handling photos and media on my home server. We have phone's dumping their camera rolls onto the machine via Syncthing,
by XorNot 3y ago
Finally! This is exactly what I want for handling photos and media on my home server. We have phone's dumping their camera rolls onto the machine via Syncthing, but the easiest way to share content safely is just to make copies of the file and go "storage is cheap". But the reality has always been closer to "storage should handle deduplication" - with this feature landing that can finally be a reality.
EDIT: Not to mention, this should make ZFS best-in-class for handling container filesystems. Deduplicating all the files in the individual layers means you can pretty much dispense with awkwardly trying to maintain inheritance trees.
- thinkloop 3y agoWould you mind expanding on that - what mechanism/app on the phone would share the files?
- XorNot 3y agoSyncthing - the android app can share your camera roll folder. So that syncs to my server, and my desktop/laptop. I drag files around on there when I want them deleted off my phone and archived somewhere. Me and my wife share a syncthing folder between us when we want to send files to each other. All of this produces a fair number of duplicate files, particularly if you have backups turned on in case of deletes. Offline dedupe basically makes all of that free though - duplicate files on the server or in backup dirs are no longer a problem.
- tecleandor 3y agoI also was thinking about using this for something similar: organization. I have datasets with unorganized data dumps: photos, music, torrents... Organizing that in shares means duplicating files...