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Shit, I've been copying onto btrfs wrong all this time.
Exploring a bug which healed itself.  It was actually a local/filesystem issue I couldn't figure out.  Solved my bind-mounting and unmounting the partition.  Go figure.
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A hackish solution to using an alternate rsync exclude list.
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I really have to solve this annoying issue.
It sucks, but it works.