rsync is bad

[Ed Greshko]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.

The third hand.