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Comment by Sohcahtoa82

> This tool simply identifies files that point at literally the same data on disk because they were duplicated in a copy-on-write setting.

You misunderstood the article, as it's basically doing the opposite of what you said.

This tool finds duplicate data that is specifically not duplicated via copy-on-write, and then turns it into a copy-on-write copy.

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