Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Well, I was thinking about vm and such, assuming at some point there was an OS reading the filesystem tht can run rsync. But I concede the point, it definitely makes things tricky.
It does seem there is some talk about the functionality, I assume it will happen sooner or later...
indeed, most of the snapshot systems I've seen to date have a 'revert' function which makes the specified snapshot the 'default' live version. OTOH, most of these only support readonly snapshots.