On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, W. Curtis Preston wrote:
> All snapshots are copy on right (or act that way), or they're not a
> snapshot.  That's the definition of a snapshot.  If it's a full copy, then
> it's a copy.

Trust me -- the feature called "snapshot" in Volume Manager is *not*
copy-on-write.  It is merely an altered semantic for mirror-breaking.

The "definition" of a snapshot is "any point-in-time feature you choose
to call a snapshot."  Volume Manager used the term for this
non-copy-on-write semantic before BCV's existed and before NetApp was
NetApp.
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