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by ithkuil 2345 days ago
Technically content addressing and chunking (chopping up files) are two orthogonal techniques. You could envision a system where the hash of a single raw file (no matter how big it is) is it's identifier, and you can then have a mapping between that identifier and the locations (e.g. IP addresses) of servers who store the whole file.
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You are of course correct. I was implying current content-addressing systems, such as IPFS.