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You should use:

   cp --reflink=auto
You get file level deduplication. The command above performs a lightweight copy (ZFS clone in file level), where the data blocks are copied only when modified. Its a copy, not a hard link. The same should work in other copy-on-write transactional filesystems as well if they have reflink support.


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