[Discuss] When you omit rsync '--update' option

[Richard Pieri]

On 5/3/2012 9:20 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:
> Well, there's ZFS, which offers snapshots (pretty much like versions).

Not even close.

VMS and RT-11 file versioning is simple: every time you save a new copy 
of a file the old version gets an incrementing number.  So you'll see 
FOO.TXT, FOO.TXT;1, FOO.TXT;2, FOO.TXT;3 and so forth when you do a 
directory listing.  ZFS snapshots aren't at all like this.

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Rich P.