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Working with Btrfs - Snapshots - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
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This is a really great article about how to use BTRFS snapshots with examples.

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Now I'm even more confused. Why would I want edit old versions of a file like that. The article compares the file snapshot to having a copy of that file but I wouldn't have a copy. There has to be some performance overhead from doing all this unnecessary storing and changing of files compared to normal reading and writing?