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Snapshots seems to be a cheap feature in ZFS but are expensive everywhere else, for example. OverlayFS has had performance issues on Linux for a while (once yo
by bsder 1y ago
Snapshots seems to be a cheap feature in ZFS but are expensive everywhere else, for example.
OverlayFS has had performance issues on Linux for a while (once you start composing a bunch of overlays, the performance drops dramatically as well as you start hitting limits on number of overlays).
- adrian_b 1y agoNowadays the ZFS advantage for snapshots is no longer true. Other file systems, e.g. the much faster XFS, have equally efficient snapshots.