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Copy-on-Write

6 questions · ~5 min · intermediate

Six questions on Linux fork copy-on-write, page-fault duplication, OverlayFS copy-up, snapshotting filesystems, and MVCC versus true page-table CoW.

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What does Linux usually duplicate immediately during fork, even though it does not duplicate every anonymous data page?

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