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true_religion
on Aug 29, 2012
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Ask HN: Do image hosting sites remove redundant im...
No serious image host is going to stick images in the database.
macowar
on Aug 29, 2012
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Well, technically a file system is a specialized typed of database. NTFS has some support for removing duplicate files and replacing them with links. Windows server 2008 calls this feature "Single Instance Storage".
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