Posted by Andrew Farmer on May 30
LVM snapshots have some nasty gotchas, though:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lvm2/+bug/360237
They also don't solve the problem of restoring a fragment of data (e.g, a single accidentally deleted file) from a
backup in an untrustworthy environment.
Source: Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me)
