I forgot to mention that HFS+ doesn’t really have hard links. Apple just grafted something onto it that kinda, sorta but not quite behaves like hard links. They did this in order to make Time Machine work.
I can kind of see how this came about. The Apple Time Machine engineers were looking at real Unix file system backup utilities like rsync or bru and wistfully said “Gee, I wish we could do that.” So, they hacked an ugly kind of workalike hard link capability into the aged HFS+ system just to make Time Machine work. This is why I’ve never really liked Time Machine. L^2 --- Lee Larson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sociopaths are attracted to politics because they see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. The fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it. — Alexander McCall Smith
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