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> This is basically only a win on macOS, and only because Apple charges through the nose for disk space You do realize that this software is only available on

> This is basically only a win on macOS, and only because Apple charges through the nose for disk space You do realize that this software is only available on macOS, and only works because of Apple's APFS filesystem? You're essentially complaining that medicine is only a win for people who are sick.

horsawlarway 2y ago
> and only works because of Apple's APFS filesystem There are lots of other file systems that support this kind of deduplication... Like ZFS that the author of the software explicitly mentions in his write up https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/ https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/ Or Btrfs ex: https://kb.synology.com/en-id/DSM/help/DSM/StorageManager/volume_btrfs_dedup?version=7 https://kb.synology.com/en-id/DSM/help/DSM/StorageManager/vo... Or hell, even NTFS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/overview https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/dat... This is NOT a novel or new feature in filesystems... Basically any CoW file system will do it, and lots of other filesystems have hacks built on top to support this kinds of feature. --- My point is that "people are only sick" because the company is pricing storage outrageously. Not that Apple is the only offender in this space - but man are they the most egregious.