Package:  jdupes
Version:  1.7-2
Severity: minor

        As currently implemented, jdupes(1) invokes FIDEDUPERANGE once
        for each set of files found to be duplicates.  However, per
        documentation (say, [1]), there can be a filesystem-specific
        limit in place on how large a data span can be handled in a
        single call to FIDEDUPERANGE.  Per strace(1) output, this limit
        appears to indeed be 16 MiB for Btrfs on Debian Stretch.

        An obvious solution is to get the maximum of the bytes_deduped
        values returned by the call and invoke it again, advancing
        src_offset and dest_offset values by that maximum, possibly
        repeating these steps until the whole file length is covered.

        AFAICT, this issue is not solved as of recent Git (a32de0db,
        2017-06-07.)

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2.html

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