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Sparse bundle disk images [1] are a more efficient way to store disk images on an underlying file system. They are a completely separate concept from the file system in the disk image itself (besides HFS+ apparently doing some intelligent free space reporting) and are definitely not implemented as APFS snapshots.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image#Sparse_bundle_dis...



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