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Re:Deduplicating a 10.4 TiB game preservation archive (WIP) by jrm4 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:40PM (#42447034)
I think the confusion here (for me too) is what precisely is the purpose/meaning of "bring the size down?"

aka, is the is a "make it easier to search" question or "we need to take up fewer bytes" question (which, perhaps, used to be the same question, but aren't necessarily now?)

Re:Deduplicating a 10.4 TiB game preservation archive (WIP) by rcxdude on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:45PM (#42447067)
I think it's "I want people to make copies of this"
Re:Deduplicating a 10.4 TiB game preservation archive (WIP) by DrFrugal on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @05:06AM (#42449330)
it's a question of both "i can store this on my 4 TiB NVMe disk" and "i can share this with other people over the internet in a timely manner"