We When we implemented the versioning feature, we anticipated that many operations on versioned objects would be based on previous versions. For example, a COPY operation on a previous version creates a new version. At that time, we chose to allow the reuse of EC segments between versions. This means that a COPY of an EC version creates a new version, but only a new manifest is created. The segment reuse means that for many use cases, there is a data savings in the cluster for using EC with versioning.
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