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somebodythere on May 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”

I think you can deduplicate at the OS level

rodgerd on May 1, 2021 | [–]

ksmd will do that for you today!

nix23 on May 1, 2021 | [–]

Great idea and hold the hashtable of all files in the ram...what a great idea.

Sleepytime on May 1, 2021 | [–]

Hardlinking them works fine.

nix23 on May 2, 2021 | | [–]

That's not de-duplication.

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