On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Michelle Gill wrote: > >> I don't think such a hardlink can exist, since I think a hardlink must point >> to something on the same volume. > > I should have been more clear, but this is why I was asking that question. My > understanding is also that hard links must be within the same volume so that > the linked files have the same inode number.
I believe the base code falls back to doing a symlink if a hardlink can't be created (a long time ago, there used to be image options to use symlinks, hardlinks, or to copy the files). The next release behaves differently, though. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
