Disk Saver dev: beyond hard links, a content-addressable file system with hash-based indexing
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-09-04
Disk Saver developer cocktailpeanut explains the tool is more than hard-link dedup for model files: it's built as a content-addressable file system with an internal database and hash-based index, linking to the Wikipedia entry on content-addressable storage — where files are keyed by content hash, deduplicating identical files and detecting any change via a new key.
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