Looks like HFS+ has a non-standard way of representing hard-links in the filesystem. The following is quoted from http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html
"The Mac OS X implementation of hard links on HFS Plus volumes was done using the existing metadata fields of the catalog records. This makes it possible to back up and restore a volume using hard links, by backing up and restoring individual files, without having to understand or interpret the hard links. An HFS Plus implementation may choose to automatically follow hard links, or not. Hard links in HFS Plus are represented by a set of several files. The actual file content (which is shared by each of the hard links) is stored in a special indirect node file. This indirect node file is the equivalent of an inode in a traditional UNIX file system. HFS Plus uses special hard link files (or links) to refer (or point) to an indirect node file. There is one hard link file for each directory entry or name that refers to the file content. Indirect node files exist in a special directory called the metadata directory. This directory exists in the volume's root directory. The name of the metadata directory is four null characters followed by the string "HFS+ Private Data". The directory's creation date is set to the creation date of the volume's root directory. The kIsInvisible and kNameLocked bits are set in the directory's Finder information. The icon location in the Finder info is set to the point (22460, 22460). These Finder info settings are not mandatory, but they tend to reduce accidental changes to the metadata directory. An implementation that automatically follows hard links should make the metadata directory inaccessable from its normal file system interface." Seems unnecessarily complicated ... -- hard link count incorrectly displayed on hfsplus filesystems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262037 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
