preparing for Time Machine

[Karl Kuehn]

On Oct 15, 2007, at 1:03 PM, William Ehrich wrote:

> It sounds as though HFS+ will now be able to make hard links to  
> other volumes.


	I don't think so, I think that the work on hard-links has focused on  
making them work better within a volume. I can't see a hard-link ever  
working between volumes, since the whole point of it is if you have  
two hard-links to a file and delete one of them, the other one is  
still there. You completely break that model when you then move  
external HD to another computer, and delete the file there.
	Across volumes you always want soft-links, or even better: aliases so  
that there is some provision for network volumes and intelligent  
fallbacks. I would love to see aliases and soft-links combined into  
one thing (or bridged for the APIs).

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		Karl Kuehn
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