Improve wording about Btrfs COW

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   <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