On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:36 PM Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Tom Browder composed on 2019-04-12 09:50 (UTC-0500): > > > I have used ext4 for many years while I have been watching zfs and > > btrfs being developed. I am now considering using one or both on at > > least one partion during my upcoming new Debian installation. > > Because of its snapshotting, BTRFS requires considerably more space than older > filesystems, as much as double.
A btrfs snapshot takes approximately zero space. Where did you get this idea from?