From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 01:37:20 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Improve wording about Btrfs COW
X-Git-Tag: debconf2014^0
X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f2996f28a502a51711217c9c6fab3458c79bf886;p=kernel-news-talk.git

Improve wording about Btrfs COW
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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index a21b559..31c5d34 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -257,9 +257,12 @@
   <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