On 2010-5-19 00:14 , Jack Howarth wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:48:39AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On May 18, 2010, at 07:45, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> >>>> Where do symlinks shine when compared to hardlinks? >>> >>> They don't. > > I can't find the link at the moment but I am pretty sure that > hardlinks have a significant performance penalty under HFS > compared to symlinks. I recall it being something like 10-fold > slower because the hardlinks are kept in a flat file system > and HFS would require an rewrite to solve this.
That stopped being true in ~10.3 IIRC. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
