Chris, I will wade through your email again in detail. I did not grasp it all on first read. My question is, one can write a file to /usr/local/ on the btrfs system and it ends up on the correct subvolume. I do not see any difference between me writing a single file, and rsync writing hundreds. Won't the data end up in the proper subvolummes, since rsync is addressing /usr/local/ etc. the same way I would on a normal user write. I cannot see why doing an rsync of source root to destination root would not preserve the btrfs system existing on the destination. I do not see where it should break, but have been afraid to try the experiment. I do not understand why it should flatted all of the subvolumes. What am I missing? Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org