Are you running Linux with a filesystem capable of block cloning/FICLONE (ZFS >= 2.2, XFS, BTRFS)?

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  • httm

    Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even actual Time Machine backups!)

  • cargo install --git https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm --branch clones strace -f -o stderr.txt -e ioctl -- httm -r -R ~/.zshenv

  • zfs

    OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD

  • UPDATE: Cloning from a ZFS snapshot is not yet allowed on Linux. See: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15345

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