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Shared Snapshots
Allows several snapshots to share a single COW area.
Avoids making and storing multiple copies of the same data.
Considerably more efficient.
Underlying design is same as thin provisioning.
Design and implementation details can be found at
- https://github.com/jthornber/storage-papers/blob/master/
- thinp-snapshots-2011/thinp-and-snapshots-talk.org