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Re:Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad by ahupp on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:36PM (#25221996)
In a lot of these systems (at least VMWare back when I used that, and Docker) you can clone an existing image with copy-on-write. This is a lot faster and would avoid 20GB of writes to spin up a new VM.
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