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A fallback to hardlinking would work for a lot more filesystems, though of course it would be limited to files that are completely identical rather than any ide
by Arnavion 2y ago
A fallback to hardlinking would work for a lot more filesystems, though of course it would be limited to files that are completely identical rather than any identical extents / blocks within files.
- gavinsyancey 2y agoMore importantly, hardlinking means writes to one file would affect both, while FIDUPERANGE creates copy-on-write semantics.