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zfs has "zfs set dedupe=on", which does exactly what you would think. There's also compression, and compression ends up deduplicating data fairly naturally. O
by TheDong 3y ago
zfs has "zfs set dedupe=on", which does exactly what you would think.
There's also compression, and compression ends up deduplicating data fairly naturally.
Other filesystems with compression (like bcachefs) also naturally manage some level of deduplication through compression.
- pseudalopex 3y agoCompression is not what anyone means when they talk about deduplicating file systems. Or what the 1st comment described.
- linsomniac 3y agoAgreed, but I think they were meaning "compression gets rid of long strings of NULs".