steipete: btrfs CoW is great for worktrees but terrible for sqlite

steipete · x · 2026-10-02

steipete shares a filesystem speedrun lesson: btrfs's copy-on-write feature is GREAT for worktrees but terrible for sqlite. The next OC update detects this and, if you did something silly like him, will migrate your database to a NOCOW spot automatically.

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