>Simplistically, it checksums the "block" and looks in a table of
>checksums-of-"blocks"-that-it-already-stores to see if the identical
><ahem, anyone see a hole here?> data already lives there.  

To what hole do you refer?  I see one in your simplistic example, but
not in what actually happens (which require a much longer technical
explanation).

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