<h1>Btrfs offline dedupe [3.12]</h1>
<ul class="incremental">
<li>
- Btrfs generally does COW rather than updating in-place, allowing
- snapshots and file copies to defer the actual copying and save
- space
+ Btrfs generally copies and frees blocks, rather than updating
+ in-place
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ This allows snapshots and file copies to copy-by-reference,
+ deferring the real copying until changes are made
</li>
<li>
Filesystems may still end up with multiple copies of the same