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Everybody talks about OpenZFS block level dedup. The real gem is to use file level deduplication in copy-on-write transactional filesystems like ZFS.

   cp --reflink=auto
The commands above perform a lightweight copy (zfs clone in file level), where the data blocks are copied only when modified.


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