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It is not a hard link. A clone is an independent file which is backed by the same storage. So far mostly the same as a hard link you’ll say. However if you modi
by frizlab 2y ago
It is not a hard link. A clone is an independent file which is backed by the same storage. So far mostly the same as a hard link you’ll say. However if you modify a clone, it will be “uncloned” and will be modified independently of its clones.
- jeroenhd 2y agoDoes APFS have the extent-level deduplication Linux filesystems have or is it only file-level deduplication? While it's not very user-friendly software (command line, after all), duperemove has proven quite useful for my filesystems.
- sharkjacobs 2y agoAnd I believe that only the modified blocks are “uncloned”, the rest of the data is still shared between the two files