Will rsync support btrfs file system?

[Louise Hoffman]

> The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific.  It sounds like
> btrfs would allow the generation of a list of files, which rsync (or tar,
> or zip, or whatever) could accept.  (Rsync obviously being the best
> choice, :-) )
>
> e.g.:
>
> $ export-whatever-from-btrfs | rsync --files-from=- / backup/
>
> (or)
>
> $ export-whatever-from-btrfs | tar -Jcvf backup.tar.xz -T -
> $ export-whatever-from-btrfs | zip -@ backup.zip
> ...etc...

I see. So rsync doesn't need to be altered.

Very cool feature to have in a file system I got to say =)