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by nobrains 594 days ago
What are the use cases where it makes sense to use de-dup? Backup comes to mind. What else?
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zitsarethecure 594 days ago
Flatpak uses OSTree dedup.

https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2021/11/24/on-flatpak-disk-usag...

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UltraSane 594 days ago
VMware + All flash storage array + inline dedupe/compression = happy users.
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3np 594 days ago
Many similar VM images or even live root filesystems.
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