SJS wrote:
Snapshots have been around as long as we've been able to mount a file as
a partition. Linux used to do that, back in the dark ages -- you could
set up a file on your MSDOS system and use that as your linux disk.
Even then, I wouldn't have thought the concept new.
I think you are right. IIRC, Stacker did pretty much the same thing
creating a file using up part or all the partition that contained a
compressed file system. And I'm betting that they weren't even the
first ones to do something like that.
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