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Re:The Slackware Way (2012) by specialist on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:25AM (#26994644)
I just had a stupid, weird notion:

File systems dedupe now, right? IIRC, per storage block.

What if linkers aligned dependencies to the storage block boundaries?

Then let the file system find and dedupe those libraries.

A bit like applying the alignment of data structures in memory (to optimize performance) at the expense of size inefficiency.

Re:The Slackware Way (2012) by jjtheblunt on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:16PM (#26997208)
> File systems dedupe now

Huh? is there a citation to that assertion perhaps for a particular instance?

Re:The Slackware Way (2012) by pvik on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:10PM (#26999393)