-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
On 2014-12-02 07:42, Achim Gratz wrote:
A snapshot is nothing more than telling btrfs "if anything writes to this file, make a copy of it and keep the old data around".
Which is not intuitive: typically a snapshot would be made at the instant of the request, occupying the full needed space. Btrfs snapshots are different, compact and fast. Not a backup snapshot.
- -- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)