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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by felixg3 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @03:07PM (#39446222)
Probably NVME namespaces [0]?

[0]: https://nvmexpress.org/resource/nvme-namespaces/

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by bravetraveler on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:54PM (#39448056)
Less fancy, quite often... at least on VPS providers [1]. They like to use reflinked files off the base images. This way they only store what differs.

1: Which is really a cloud without a certain degree of software defined networking/compute/storage/whatever.

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