> When you clone a VM (lets say an appVM), you'll notice another private
> volume is created and shows the same figures as the volume it
> originates from. But looking at pool00 (the overall container for our
> VM volumes), the Data% barely changes if at all.

I did see in Qubes Manager that some template-based VMs, sys-net, sys-firewall, 
and untrusted, have small sizes (< 100 MB) after I played around with them. I'm 
guessing that represents stuff that has accumulated in their private volumes.

> The Linux storage options won't show a volume that grows from nothing
> and has a size equal to the delta from the parent volume.

That's just what I was (mistakenly) looking for, based on my experience with 
Hyper-V.

> And that brings me to another point: On Btrfs if you have two related
> files (.img volumes) but suspect they have diverged too much over
> time, you can tell Btrfs to perform deduplication to find new
> commonalities and reduce the overall space used.

Btrfs looks interesting, but given I don't fully understand how Qubes 4 handles 
storage even in its vanilla configuration, I'd better get some more experience 
with it under my belt before I experiment with a non-default file system.

Thank you again for your help! This has cleared things up and taught me some 
things.

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