This article is part of a series of articles that takes a closer look at Btrfs, the default filesystem for Fedora variants since Fedora 33.

This is a really great article about how to use BTRFS snapshots with examples.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    2 hours 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?