> On Fri, Jun 27, 2025, at 1:51 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >> drive, but you would get at least some advantage from having ZFS serve up 
> >> the
> >> storage.  I didn't do any testing though, so I still don't know how well it
> >> would work. Maybe someone else has tried it.
> >
> > That's not going to get you history, it would still be an FFS filesystem
>
> I think it would let you mount earlier versions of the filesystem
> read-only.  You'd have to separately mount each date-time you wanted
> to examine; annoying unless you scripted it.  I'm not going to go

You could get that with rsnapshot using hardlinks, dirs named after
the dates the last sync was made.
Not a totally bad setup for crash recovery kinds of backups, but not
the same as versioning either.

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