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by cperciva 3497 days ago
This is also how FreeBSD Update and Portsnap store files. This technique has been around for a long time.
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patrickmn 3497 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage
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cperciva 3497 days ago
Right. I'm not a fan of the terminology though; I prefer hash-addressed storage to avoid the potential confusion with associative memory.
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