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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by jhallenworld on Sunday May 02, 2021 @10:36AM (#27015662)
The disk space issue could fixed other ways. Have the filesystem automatically find and shared common blocks.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by jasonjayr on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:18AM (#27015999)
into, say ..... common block libraries?
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by Demiurge on Sunday May 02, 2021 @01:35PM (#27017097)
no, into common block maps. it's filesystem compression and deduplication, and it works great, on a lower level from libraries. I use it with ZFS and btrfs, works wonders.
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