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Comment by KoleSeise1277

7 hours ago

Nice breakdown of the COW model. How do you plan to clean up snapshots once branches get a few generations deep?

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onatm  6 hours ago

I haven’t put too much thought into this yet. A "branch" depth threshold is the first thing that comes to mind, with RBD flattening as an option once that threshold is reached.

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