On: Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes y...

[Boulth]

> Tangential to this when are operating systems going to ship w/ CoW filesystems by default?

As far as I know Ubuntu ships with ZFS kernel module.

Unfortunately, as you undoubtedly know, ZFS support on Linux will always be a problem due to licensing.

As far as I know native encryption is not yet stable in ZFS.

[jpalomaki → Boulth]

”The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) keeps historical versions of files and folders on NTFS volumes by copying old, newly overwritten data to shadow copy via copy-on-write technique. The user may later request an earlier version to be recovered.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Volume_Shadow_Copy

[canada_dry → jpalomaki]

> Volume Shadow Copy Service

Sure, and the first thing every WIN virus does is deletes the shadow copies.

[Spivak → canada_dry]

I don't see what you're getting at, an equivalent virus on Linux would delete snapshots as well.