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Re:Microsoft resumes rollout of Windows 10 version 1809, pro... by wtallis on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:17PM (#18444499)
Split that 49GB into separate piles of OS binaries, configuration data, and third-party crap that gets dumped into the Windows directory, and the problem won't look so bad. And SSD prices have been dropping fast for several months now, and the drops will continue well into next year.

But the ideal solution would be a copy-on-write filesystem supporting snapshots, rather than A/B partitions.

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Re:Microsoft resumes rollout of Windows 10 version 1809, pro... by Someone1234 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:36PM (#18445142)
> But the ideal solution would be a copy-on-write filesystem supporting snapshots, rather than A/B partitions.

NTFS is already that via Volume Shadow Copy. They just don't use it in the way we're discussing, but the tech is there.

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