Re:A straight talk about btrfs
by tw04 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:09AM
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The term "clone" has been used in the storage industry for several decades now. It has a very specific meaning, as does the term "snapshot". I understand it might not make sense to you personally, but you're just going to confuse anyone you're talking to referring to it by another name. You might as well start calling containers "light virtual machines". You'll get an equal number of blank stares and confusion from whomever you're talking to.
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Re:A straight talk about btrfs
by throw0824a on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:16AM
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> The term "clone" has been used in the storage industry for several decades now. It has a very specific meaning, as does the term "snapshot".
Yup, this is my point: words have meaning.
Semi-recent XKCD on "Communicating":