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[andi abes <andi.abes@xxxxxxxxx>]

> So the ability to create a snapshot, rollback to a snapshot and to create a new snapshot that references a snapshot as its base are strong
> candidates for abilities to design for volume drivers. Any device that did not support this capability would simply state so. Snapshotting would
> then have to be implemented with generic logic rather than vendor specific logic. Generally the vendor specific logic will be able to perform
> the operation more efficiently than generic logic, otherwise the vendor would not have developed it.

Would this also be applicable to the ephemeral instance storage?

Since I'm guessing not,  at least not generically, are there any plans
on some sort of parity between volumes and ephemeral storage?
(But then again, given the discussions about boot-from-volume, maybe
I'm guessing wrong...)

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