Adam Tauno Williams said the following on 10/24/2012 10:06 AM:
These same properties can be acquired without a virtual machine. LVM provides snapshots, and btrfs provides snapshots. I've been using LVM snapshots of data directories for years, it works great.
+1 Bother LVM and BtrFS offer other advantages and facilities depending on your context. -- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. -- Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (1995), quoted from Victor J. Stenger, Has Science Found God? (2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org