I am experimenting with data deduplication under Server 2012. A question I have, for which I have found no answer: What happens in a situation with identically named files that are for example an identical image, but at different resolutions? Is there any part of these files that is the same, bit-for-bit, chunk-for-chunk or because they have different resolution, is every bit of each one spared? Example: if I have three directories, each named the same, and each containing a psd file with the same name but there is a 72 dpi, a 300 dpi and a 1200 dpi version respectively, does any part of these images remain the same and therefore gets replaced with only a reference? If it were to delete any of the three entirely how would I know it didn't delete the best (highest-resolution) version and keep the crappy one?
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While these files all share the same name, they are not the same file. The binary that makes up the file is going to be different across these these files.
The "chunks" of data …
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