Hi,
I've tried btrfs from stable mercurial repository, and I'd like to thank for 
one of 2 zfs features I missed in linux.
Now I can make snapshot before doing something risky and revert back to the 
snapshot if needed. Easily and quickly.
I can mount this snapshot on the mountpoint where the original filesystem was 
mounted. 
One question: can I make this snapshot to have name 'default', replacing what 
was 'default' and screwed so that I've decided to rollback to the snapshot?

But one of the features I don't see and I don't see any plan to implement it is 
incremental snapshots. Example: I have btrfs volume on some computer and have 
created snapshot and have sent it to another computer as a backup. Then, the 
next day, after some files are changed/deleted/created, and snaphot differ from 
the active volume by some percent of blocks, I want to have it sent to another 
computer as incremental backup. Zfs can send only the blocks changed, no need 
to scan and compare all the files. If btrfs has this feature, then I would 
consider replacing solaris on many of our systems by linux with btrfs.

-- 
  Sergey Ivanov.
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