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If this is somewhat common for games, could one create a virtual fs with FUSE that dedupes using via content-defined chunking and install games there?

I feel like writes would probably be quite painful, but with game assets are essentially write-once read-forever so not the end of the world?

As an aside, its messed up that people with expensive SSDs are unnecessarily paying this storage tax. Just feels lazy...



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