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Comment Re: What - no backups? (Score 1) 139

ZFS and btrfs are not just journaling (basiically guaranteeing a consistent state) they add CoW - Copy on Write. They share blocks with the original snapshot until a block is modified, then store the modified copy. This uses diskspace efficiently for some scenarios like typical desktop usage.

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