markfasheh / duperemove

Tools for deduping file systems
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Does duperemove dedupe writable files from read-only subvolumes? #314

Open RustyNova016 opened 1 year ago

RustyNova016 commented 1 year ago

I got a few read-only subvolumes on my disk that have duplicates with my non readonly files. Both are hard copied, so no dedupe.

Once I run duperemove, I get errors that the files in the readonly subvolume could not get deduped because of being read-only, but there is no information about the writable files getting deduped from the read-only data.

Is duperemove able to use the read-only data to dedupe the files? Is it even implementable?