On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: > >>> 2. I could use Mac's Time Machine backup to restore my system to the >>> way it was the day before I installed Macports. >> >> IIRC Time Machine does not work very well with MacPorts as it is unable >> to backup hardlinks. > > Wha?? I have hard links all over the place; Time Machine doesn't like them?
I believe Time Machine will back up (and restore) a copy of each hard linked file (instead of one file and the hard links). I haven't tested this in a while, though. It is something that people have filed bugs with Apple about (and you probably should too so that it is more likely that it gets fixed). > Need to check that. (Yea, I know, HFS doesn't actually support hard > links, they are a "graft-on") Earlier versions of Mac OS X had HFS+ implementations that had various issues with hard links, but I haven't seen any problems on anything recent (I'm not sure if it was 10.3 or 10.4 that fixed the last problem I tended to notice). -- 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
