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by im3w1l 2337 days ago
IIUC: If you hard link two files, changing one file changes the other. If you dedupe two blocks, it will copy-on-write, meaning that changing one block does not change the other.

It's not an intrinsic property of file-dedupe vs block-dedupe. It's just how it's conventionally done.