On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 18, 2011, at 14:49, Scott Webster wrote: >> >> Does time machine actually work properly for MacPorts? I thought it >> had been posted here that it did not, since both it and MacPorts use >> hardlinks to work their magic... > > Uh, I don't actually know; I haven't had occasion to try it myself. I think > the only problem was that hardlinks don't survive the backup process, meaning > they'd be backed up and restored as two independent files. So the only > problem should be that your installed ports use a bit more disk space, until > you upgrade or rebuild them, or even just until you deactivate and reactivate > them. >
Hmm, yeah that makes sense, and doesn't sound so terrible. Scott _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
