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Re:DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only ... by kseistrup on Friday April 12, 2024 @07:40AM (#40011432)
That's a substantial reduction. Thanks for testing this!
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Re:DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only ... by mhx77 on Friday April 12, 2024 @10:00AM (#40013006)
It's ever so slightly smaller than a .tar.xz of the same data. The main difference being that you don't have to fully extract it in order to access the data.
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