This uses reflinks, right? I've been experimenting with using reflinks under Linux to speed up layer extraction for Docker, it's great.
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Re: Hyperspace
#12Are 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?
No, this uses a feature of the macOS file system. From the FAQ:
> Q: Are clone files the same thing as symbolic links or hard links?
> A: No. Symbolic links (“symlinks”) and hard links are ways to make two entries in the file system that share the same data. This might sound like the same thing as the space-saving clones used by Hyperspace, but there’s one important difference. With symlinks and hard links, a change to one of the files affects all the files.
> The space-saving clones made by Hyperspace are different. Changes to one clone file do not affect other files. Cloned files should look and behave exactly the same as they did before they were converted into clones.
Re: Hyperspace
#13Are 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
Thank you. This makes sense now.
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#14It'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.
This would only be true if it didn't take your time before asking you to pay to not waste the time that it took.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This would only be true if it didn't take your time before asking you to pay to not waste the time that it took.
The app store identifies apps with paid features. You shouldn't be entirely surprised.
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#16It'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.
It's a couple Q's in on the page:
Q: How do I pay for Hyperspace? Hyperspace is a free download in the Mac App Store. Once downloaded, it’s free to scan an unlimited number of files. Scanning will let you know how much space is eligible to be reclaimed.
If you decide you want to reclaim that space, you will need to pay for Hyperspace using the purchase button that appears after a successful scan or by selecting “Purchase Hyperspace…” from the “Hyperspace” menu in the menu bar.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This would only be true if it didn't take your time before asking you to pay to not waste the time that it took.
You are complaining that it can’t instantaneously perform a complete scan of your disk, and then attributing malicious intent to this lack of magic instant scanning technology.
What are we even doing here. The knee-jerk conspiratorial foolishness on this site is completely off the deep end.
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#18Seems 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.
I don't think it's very useful but there's already a checksum in the meta data of an S3 object: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_Object.h...
It might be better to keep an index of paths to checksums and use the checksum as object key in S3.
I'm not sure what you like to achieve but if you use restic with S3 as a backend you can achieve much better deduplicate and compression.
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#19It'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.
It's a couple Q's in on the page: Q: How do I pay for Hyperspace? Hyperspace is a free download in the Mac App Store. Once downloaded, it’s free to scan an unlimited number of files. Scanning will let you know how much space is eligible to be reclaimed. If you decide you want to reclaim that space, you will need to pay for Hyperspace using the purchase button that appears after a successful scan or by selecting “Purc…
It's four pages below the fold. The fact this is a paid tool is deliberately obscured.
Re: Hyperspace
#20It'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.
I don’t understand. It mentions multiple times it’s not free right on the linked page. And if you open the App Store link? It also mentions it’s a paid app.
What am I missing?