Disk Saver dev explains: hard links were just one piece of a custom content-addressable file system
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-09-04
Disk Saver developer cocktailpeanut reveals the tool goes far beyond hard-link deduplication of model files: it's built on a custom content-addressable file system with an internal database and hash-based index. The goal, he says, is that it "just works" for reclaiming disk space.
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