On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Dan Shoop wrote: > >>> hfsdebug indicates the original and cloned/copied files are not the same. >>> With Time Machine restores, they are. >>>> >> >> Since I must not be following you since I don't see this empirically please >> provide and example. > > Everything involved was 10.6? Under what conditions does 10.6 assume that > it's writing files to a disk for use under 10.6? I'd think there might be a > lot of cases where tools would copy to normally-allocated files without the > "hiding compressed data in the attributes" stuff, for compatibility with > systems prior to 10.6. AFAIK this is only done by Apple's installer application for system files and updates - usually things that remain only on the drive under operation from an OS that understands this convention. I have not seen it, so far, treat 3rd party applications or data files in this manner. Chris Murphy_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
