https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294
--- Comment #41 from Mihnea-Costin Grigore <mih...@zulu.ro> --- The discussion about file systems like ZFS/BTRFS/etc. and their various snapshot mechanisms is off-topic relative to this feature request, since they are very different technologies used for different purposes. rsync is used commonly to synchronise at the *file level* between very different operating systems -- from Linux to Windows, from macOS to Linux, etc. It also has multiple features to allow filtering and selecting files within the source and destination directories, thus only synchronising a subset of files. We need a solution that works with the flexibility of rsync itself, and snapshots (useful as they are) do not fit that at all. This would be a very useful feature to have as part of rsync, made evident by the many requests both here and on other discussion forums over the past almost 20 (!) years. Can we rather discuss what the blockers are for the existing patches? What stops them from inclusion -- is it quality, functionality, compatibility, test coverage, something else? Working to fix that and making the already existing patches acceptable for inclusion would appear to be the most constructive course of action, rather than deflecting the request. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
