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1e1atoday at 9:41 AM1 replyview on HN

Additionally, while I don't know much about APFS, I don't think it would be beneficial to point the extracted app to blocks that are also part of the dmg file, i.e. some copying has to happen anyway.


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fragmedetoday at 10:52 AM

in a perfect theoretical filesystem, copy-on-write means copying is as cheap as moving a file, though uncompressing time makes sense.

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