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		zahlman 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uv: Running a script with dependencies ... ZFS snapshots don't produce copies of the underlying file data, do they? (Yeah, I'm still a dinosaur on ext4...)

Hackbraten 5 months ago [–]

Nothing wrong with ext4! Having choices and preferences is a good thing.

You’re correct, ZFS snapshots don’t produce copies, at least not at the time they’re being created. They work a little like copy-on-write.

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