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sitkack on Sept 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

The sync daemon could sync with hardlink and then rename which is atomic.

Filligree on Sept 23, 2016 [–]

That would require rewriting the entire directory.

sitkack on Sept 23, 2016 | [–]

hardlinks for the stuff not changed. Browsers of course, should move to append only file formats.

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