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by HumanOstrich 360 days ago
No, they work the opposite way using copy-on-write.
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"For files that changed or were deleted: move them into a new delta folder. For new/changed files: copy them into the latest snapshot folder." is just redneck copy-on-write. It's the same result but less efficient under the hood.
Nice to realize that this boils down to copy on write. Makes it easier to explain.
Is there a reason NOT to use ZFS or BTRFS?

I mean the idea sounds cool but what are you missing? ZFS even works on Windows these days and with tools like zrepl you can configure time based snapshotting, auto-sync and auto-cleanup