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From: "Norbert Scheibner" <scno@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: cross-subvolume cp --reflink
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:41:36 +0200
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To: Konstantinos Skarlatos <k.skarlatos@gmail.com>
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> On: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:30:13 +0300 Konstantinos Skarlatos wrote

> +1 from me too, i would save enormous amounts of space with a patch 
> like that, at least until dedupe is implemented. We could call it "poor 
> man's dedupe"

That's my point. This poor man's dedupe would solve my problems here very well. I don't need a zfs-variant of dedupe. I can implement such a file-based dedupe with userland tools and would be happy.

It's there, it's tested, it doesn't break another thing. Use it!

Greetings
   Norbert