-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/15/11 10:57 AM, Richard Somers wrote: > On Sep 15, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Scott Ribe wrote: > >> Minor nit, that's a symlink, not a hard link. One important >> difference is that a symlink can cross volume boundaries... > > Correct. Second important difference is symbolic links may refer > to directories which this is.
Not quite true. User-land "ln" cannot (to my knowledge) create hard links to directories in OS X. But the file system does support such hard links. The remote backup program that I use (rsnapshot) definitely does it, and I suspect that is what Time Machine does under the hood as well. There's a lengthy discussion of this matter on Stack Overflow for anyone interested: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80875/what-is-the-bash-command-to-create-a-hardlink-to-a-directory-in-os-x But yes, for your purposes you want a symlink. - -- Conrad Shultz Synthetiq Solutions www.synthetiqsolutions.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFOckB9aOlrz5+0JdURAsYTAJ0R487HqyHVt7kuIl/SlLVGWxa4GwCePBXa 88rzdDSINaszPVwEB+9Oosg= =6Str -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
