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Re: Hyperspace

#5
Seems useful for s3 buckets. I suppose a script that watches for new objects, calculates its sha256 and stores that in a DB, then checks for duplicate hashes would be a fairly trivial task. Though s3 doesn’t support symbolic links so accounting would need to be handled by server side code.

Re: Hyperspace

#6
It's quite the dark-pattern to allow you to download it and scan for free, without any clear indication that it's a paid product, and then ambush you with a purchase dangling the space savings in front of your face.

Re: Hyperspace

#7
Nice I was just thinking about this the other day! Given the memory supply issue today, I wonder how much of data in our data centers worldwide is essentially just copied data? I have a feeling that there is a ton of redundancy, much of it absolutely necessary, but much of it essentially not at all, and howmuc memory we can reclaim by culling copies

Re: Hyperspace

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post #6

It's quite the dark-pattern to allow you to download it and scan for free, without any clear indication that it's a paid product, and then ambush you with a purchase dangling the space savings in front of your face.

If anything, it's the opposite of a dark pattern: you get to see if it'll provide any value for you without paying a dime. It's a far better proposition than paying up only to find out that it won't free up any space for you. The linked site is very clear about how the pricing works.

Re: Hyperspace

#9
Are you deleting the others and creating a symlink to the original? How does this work exactly? I didn't get it from the FAQ section.

Does this mean that if the original is gone, all the file links will not be found?

Re: Hyperspace

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post #9

Are you deleting the others and creating a symlink to the original? How does this work exactly? I didn't get it from the FAQ section. Does this mean that if the original is gone, all the file links will not be found?

Here’s a lengthier explanation [1] but it’s basically an APFS feature.

[1]: https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/#how-it-works

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