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Re:Initial Hammer2 filesystem implementation by snovv_crash on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:51AM (#15070049)
The term online and offline are also correct, although they tend to be used in the machine learning field more.
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Re:Initial Hammer2 filesystem implementation by antongribok on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:02AM (#15070102)
Offline is a completely different term when speaking about filesystems. Offline means that the filesystem needs to be unmounted before an operation can proceed.

For example some filesystems can be grown online, but can shrink only offline.

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Re:Initial Hammer2 filesystem implementation by Dylan16807 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:07AM (#15070122)
The specific term "offline deduplication" does not mean you unmount the filesystem. Perhaps it's a bad term, but it exists.
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