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.


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