Yeah, our data is immutable, so hard Link’s work fine. -- Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com
> On Jun 28, 2017, at 02:43, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> > wrote: > >> On 27 Jun 2017, at 22:45, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote: >> >> Agreed. Thanks for the code, and for showing the other techniques. In my >> case, I still have to support HFS+, and I want to do that with hard links. I >> wish there was an API to clone-or-hardlink, but I can do that. > > Perhaps worth emphasising here, since you mention hard links, that the > difference between hard links and clones is that clones are copy-on-write. > i.e. if you hard link a file, and then change the data, *all of the linked > copies will change too*. > > I’m sure that’s not an issue in your application, but if someone later > happens across this thread and thinks “What a great idea!”, mentioning that > the two are only equivalent for the read-only case might avoid some pain. > > Kind regards, > > Alastair. > > -- > http://alastairs-place.net > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
