[horsawlarway]

> and only works because of Apple's APFS filesystem

There are lots of other file systems that support this kind of deduplication...

Like ZFS that the author of the software explicitly mentions in his write up https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/

Or Btrfs ex: https://kb.synology.com/en-id/DSM/help/DSM/StorageManager/vo...

Or hell, even NTFS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/dat...

This is NOT a novel or new feature in filesystems... Basically any CoW file system will do it, and lots of other filesystems have hacks built on top to support this kinds of feature.

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My point is that "people are only sick" because the company is pricing storage outrageously. Not that Apple is the only offender in this space - but man are they the most egregious.