Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs: Document the reflink(2) system call.

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On Tue, 5 May 2009, Joel Becker wrote:

> 	And if your file is actually a disk image, you get snapping of
> disks for free :-)

Indeed... I think a great use-case scenario for this will be snapshotting 
VM images, as well as fast and space-efficient instantiation of VMs.


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