Why might full image copies be faster to impleme

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Why might full image copies be faster to implement than an incremental image copy?

Becaise an incremental image copy has to search for changed dataa and cannot make use of sequential pre fetch. Conversely, a full image copy has no checking to do as it takes advantage of sequential pre fetch.

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