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Its interesting how Linux tools are all free when even trivial mac tools are being sold. Nothing against someone trying to monetize but the linux culture sure i
by the_clarence 2y ago
Its interesting how Linux tools are all free when even trivial mac tools are being sold. Nothing against someone trying to monetize but the linux culture sure is nice!
- dewey 2y agoIt's not that nice to call someone's work they spent months on "trivial" without knowing anything about the internals and what they ran into.
- MadnessASAP 2y agoI don't think they meant it in a disparaging way, except maybe against Apple. Moreso that typically filesystems that can support deduplication include a deduplication tool in it's standard suite of FS tools. I too find it odd that Apple does not do this.
- alwillis 2y agoBy now, you know it’s not de-duping anything-nothing is deleted. Of course the Copy-on-Write clone functionality has been available since APFS became the default file system in 2019.
- the_clarence 2y agoI didnt mean that the work was trivial, but the tool seems like something that could be a simple CLI
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- gblargg 2y agoThere might be a difference in robustness. There's a monetary consequence to this developer for getting it wrong.
- scraptor 2y agoThe linux tools can't get it wrong, the kernel checks that the files submitted for deduplication are actually identical.
- piyuv 2y agoSkimming comments here, there are at least 3 open source versions of this, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179010 So it’s neither novel or new. I think author being “famous” around tech circles and Apple fans’ engineered hatred of open source contributed to the rise of this article.