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Re:Software Deduplication: Quick comparison of save ratings by vardump on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @07:28PM (#11077366)
Wrong. If the alignment is wrong, you'll likely lose 100%. 2 kB can be aligned in 64 different positions within 128 kB.

That 1000 kB of 2 kB continuous blocks must start exactly at same mod 128 kB alignment. There are 64 different possible alignments.

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Re:Software Deduplication: Quick comparison of save ratings by linuxready on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @07:31PM (#11077375)
Oh that's it then ! Thanks for the clarification.
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