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by Dylan16807 1182 days ago
> This is just a thing for COW-style filesystems.

It doesn't have to be.

ZFS in particular has an architecture that's very hostile to ever moving things.

BTRFS has a design that's amenable to defragmentation, but the builtin option doesn't work with snapshots and the external programs I've tried are partial and finnicky.