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Because it's a copy on write file system The snapshots don't take up any extra space until you do any writing. The common parts between snapshots are shared between them in storage so you only pay the cost for any changes (rounded to some block size).


But if I remux a large video, won't I have two versions of that video taking space on the disk? If I do that often, that will eat the capacity very quickly.




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