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[Caitlin Bestler <Caitlin.Bestler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Restricting fingerprinting to blocks would make block level compares possible, but as I noted on an earlier reply
it would *always* require that the blocks be transferred to perform the calculation. It is a lot harder to double
Network bandwidth than to double storage. Deduplication that only saves disk space is leaving the larger problem
of network bottlenecks unaddressed.