Am Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:

> rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of
> compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve
> permissions.

Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync relying
on and which fs wouldn't meet the requirements.

Reg. compression, I believe there's a stackable compressing (fuse) fs one
could use.

Thanks...

 Dirk
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