rsync is bad

[Derek Broughton]

Ed Greshko wrote:

> FWIW, Linux also has the ability to take snapshots of file systems.
> 

Aw, c'mon Ed, don't leave us hanging!  How?

fwiw, I should think it isn't _Linux_ but specific filesystems.  The
previous poster was talking about UFS on BSD.  iirc, you could use UFS on
Linux, and I'm sure it would have the same capability.  otoh, I've never
heard of snapshots on ext3 (which doesn't mean it can't be done).  On the
third hand, if your filesystems are on LVM, it appears snapshotting can be
done at the LV level.
-- 
derek