You’d think duplicating a 110 MB MariaDB schema in 2026 would be a sub-second operation. After all: cp -r 110 MB of files on tmpfs: ~0.3s btrfs subvolume snapshot: ~0.2s NVMe writes at 5 GB/s Yet a naive mariadb-dump | mariadb of a 51-table real schema takes ~15 seconds. Need 200 of those for a […]
