Here's a broad and perhaps a bit naive question on this;
Reddit, Imgur, and any other site that uploads significant amounts of images from significant amount of users.. do they attempt to do this? To de-dupe images and instead create virtual links?
At face value it'd seem like a crazy amount of physical disk space savings, but maybe the processing overhead is too expensive?
Reddit, Imgur, and any other site that uploads significant amounts of images from significant amount of users.. do they attempt to do this? To de-dupe images and instead create virtual links?
At face value it'd seem like a crazy amount of physical disk space savings, but maybe the processing overhead is too expensive?