On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 11:57:30AM -0800, Kevin Wilkinson wrote: > if you are able/willing to use ZFS (rather than ext4, xfs, ...) to > store your database, then it might work for you. ZFS is > copy-on-write so it can very quickly clone a database. > > kevin Hi Arjun Redhat 7 does have LVM snapshots that does something similar. Kevin is correct, COW is the secret. Regards, Ken