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 | | Copies are made almost immediately within the disk subsystem, despite the size of the volume. |
 | | The clone will result in two separate copies, and the length of time it takes to make this kind of copy is related to the amount of data copied and the speed of the disk subsystem. |
 | | When a copy of data is requested using the copy-on-write technique, the disk subsystem simply sets up a second pointer - a snapshot index - and represents it as a new copy. |
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